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Liquidity, Activity, Mortality
Sep 2009
The authors document a within-month mortality cycle where deaths decline before the 1st day of the month and then spike after the 1st. This cycle is present across a wide variety of causes and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Estimating The Employer Switching Costs And Wage Responses Of Forward-Looking Engineers
Sep 2009
The authors estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Work Disability, Work, And Justification Bias In Europe And The U.S.
Aug 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "Do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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International Welfare And Employment Linkages Arising From Minimum Wages
Jul 2009
The authors formulate a two-country model with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms to reconsider labor market linkages in open economies. Labor-market imperfections arise by virtue of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Employment And Productivity: Disentangling Employment Structure And Qualification Effects
Mar 2010
This paper studies the effect of changes in the employment rate on labour productivity per hour, taking an empirical approach. By splitting the workforce into three qualification categories, this...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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Get Paid More, Work More? Lessons From French Physicians~ Labour Supply Responses To Hypothetic Fee Increases
Dec 2010
This paper is devoted to the analysis of the General Practitioners' (GPs) labour supply, specifically focusing on the physicians' labour supply responses to higher compensations. This analysis is...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment And Informality In Developing Economies
Feb 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities,...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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Heterogeneity And Cyclical Unemployment
Jul 2009
The authors model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and unemployment. They show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Seam Bias, Multiple-State, Multiple-Spell Duration Models And The Employment Dynamics Of Disadvantaged Women
Jul 2009
Panel surveys generally suffer from "Seam bias" - too few transitions observed within reference periods and too many reported between interviews. Seam bias is likely to affect duration models...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Estimating The Impact Of Trade And Offshoring On American Workers Using The Current Population Surveys
Jun 2009
The authors link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population Surveys. They find that occupational exposure to globalization is...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Human Simulations Of Language Learning
Oct 2007
One problem with machine models, says the author, is that "They don't try to learn what the human already knows," and the authors really aren't sure "How big a piece of the pie that is in the...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The Price Of Prejudice: Labour Market Discrimination On The Grounds Of Gender And Ethnicity
Aug 2008
Despite some progress, there is still evidence of discrimination on the grounds of gender and ethnic or racial origins in OECD labour markets. Field experiments show pervasive ethnic...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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Labour Market Institutions And The Personal Distribution Of Income In The OECD
Nov 2008
A large literature has studied the impact of labour market institutions on wage inequality, but their effect on income inequality has received little attention. In this paper the authors argue...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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Optimal Taxation And Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony Justify The Minimum Wage?
Jun 2009
Does monopsony on the labor market in itself justify the implementation of a minimum wage when it would not be used in a competitive economy? This issue is studied in a model of optimal taxation....
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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Heterogeneity Matters: Labour Productivity Differentiated by Age And Skills
Mar 2011
An ageing population bears important consequences for labour markets. Policy makers and an increasing number of individual organisations as well as private firms realise that early retirement of...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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Labour Market Institutions In Hungary With A Focus On Wage And Employment Flexibility
Nov 2008
It is widely believed today, that the operation of the labour markets is influenced by institutional factors, affecting macroeconomic adjustment in response to shocks. In this way, labour market...
Provided by Magyar Nemzeti Bank
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Mobility And Human Development
Apr 2009
This paper argues that mobility and migration have always been an intrinsic part of human development. Migration can be considered as a fundamental capabilities-enhancing freedom itself. However,...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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Human Development Impacts Of Migration: South Africa Case Study
Apr 2009
Controls on human mobility and efforts to undermine them continue to shape South Africa's politics, economy, and society. Despite the need for improved policy responses to human mobility, reform...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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The Russian Migration Policy And Its Impact On Human Development: The Historical Perspective
Apr 2009
For Russia, migration policy - in terms of internal or/and international migration flows management - was an ever-important element of the State activities. Concentrated on State interests, the...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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Managing Mobility For Human Development: The Growing Salience Of Mixed Migration
Jun 2009
This paper explores the connections between mixed migration and human development, understood as the expansion of capabilities and choice (Sen 1999). It first clarifies some of the key concepts in...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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Improving The Measurement Of Human Development
Jul 2010
The authors propose a new Human Development Index that involves a number of changes with respect to the present one, even though it keeps the basic structure of the index (namely, preserving...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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The Challenges Of Incorporating Empowerment Into The HDI: Some Lessons From Happiness Economics And Quality Of Life Research
Jul 2010
This paper reviews what the authors know about measuring quality of life, based on extensive work with happiness surveys in Latin America, and how that accumulated knowledge can inform the debate...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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Hope In Hard Times: Women's Empowerment And Human Development
Jul 2010
This paper addresses the conceptual and methodological issues related to women's empowerment, the trends in women's empowerment over the last 20 years in key areas such as education, health,...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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Punishing High-status Deviants: The Role Of Transgression Severity And Betrayal
Jan 2011
Evaluations of workplace deviant behavior are often biased by the personal characteristics of both deviants and sanctioners. In this paper, the authors focus on the characteristics of deviants and...
Provided by INSEAD
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Marry For What: Caste And Mate Selection In Modern India
May 2009
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. The authors use a unique data set on individuals...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Where Does The Wage Penalty Bite?
May 2009
The literature examining the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and wages has fairly consistently found that BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Short Run Constraints And The Increasing Marginal Value Of Time In Recreation
May 2009
Leisure activities such as local recreation trips usually take place in discrete blocks of time that are surrounded by time devoted to other commitments. It can be costly to transfer time between...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Comparative Advantage And Unemployment
Jun 2009
The authors model unemployment allowing workers to differ by comparative advantage in market work. Workers with comparative advantage are identified by who works more hours when employed. This...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Inequality Trends For Germany In The Last Two Decades: A Tale Of Two Countries
Jun 2009
In this paper the authors first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany from the last twenty years. They generally find that inequality was...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Tax Incidence In Dynamic Economies With Externalities And Endogenous Labor Supply
Nov 2007
This paper examines the long-run incidence of factor income taxes and expenditure taxes in an infinitely lived representative agent growth model which allows both for production externalities and...
Provided by Hokkaido University
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Real Exchange Rate, Productivity And Labor Market Rigidities
Feb 2009
The authors extend the classic Balassa-Samuelson model to an environment with search unemployment. They show that the classic Balassa-Samuelson model with the assumption of full employment emerges...
Provided by Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research
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The Labor Market Effects Of The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
May 2010
This paper provides an empirical examination of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. This analysis of taxable sales in the counties in which Olympic events took place finds that...
Provided by College of the Holy Cross
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The Long Term Consequences Of Famine On Survivors: Evidence From A Unique Natural Experiment Using China~s Great Famine
Mar 2010
This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's Great Famine. To address problems of measurement error of famine exposure and potential endogeneity of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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A Structural Estimation Of The CES Preferences And Linear Labor Supply: The Case Of Prime-Age Males In Japan
Mar 2008
The tax simulation studies in Japan have necessarily relied on arbitrary sets of preference parameters due to the paucity of the empirical estimates. Motivated by this state of the art, the...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
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Neighbors And Co-Workers: The Importance Of Residential Labor Market Networks
Mar 2010
The authors specify and implement a test for the presence and importance of labor market network based on residential proximity in determining the establishments at which people work. Using...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
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Labor-Market Attachment And Training Participation
Jul 2010
This paper examines how expected attachment to the labor market and expected tenure at a specific firm affect training participation. The results, based on cross-sectional data from Japan,...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
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Social Security Earnings Test And The Labor Supply Of The Elderly: New Evidence From Unique Survey Responses In Japan
May 2010
Although there exists a large volume of literature on the subject, a consensus on the labor supply effects of the social security earnings test for the elderly has yet to be reached. This paper...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
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On The Economic Architecture Of The Workplace: Repercussions Of Social Comparisons Among Heterogeneous Workers
Feb 2011
The authors analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. They consider...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Social Networks And Labor Market Entry Barriers: Understanding Inter-Industrial Wage Differentials In Urban China
Sep 2009
An entry barrier in the labor market can be an important source of wage inequality. This paper finds that social networks, father's education and political status, and urban household registration...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
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Early Labour Market Returns To College Subjects
Apr 2008
This paper aims at estimating early labour market outcomes of Italian university graduates across college subjects. The authors devote great attention to endogenous selection issues using...
Provided by University of Aarhus
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Crime, Immigration And The Labor Market: A General Equilibrium Model
Nov 2010
Does immigration cause crime? To answer this question, the authors build a two-country general equilibrium model with search costs in which the migration (in/out-) flows, the crime rates and the...
Provided by University of Padova
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Update Q4 2010: The Universe Of Corporate PC Backup Options
Nov 2010
What's your reaction to this scenario? One of your engineers leaves their laptop, full of mission-critical (but encrypted) data, in a cab. One frantic phone call later and we learn that the data...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Underemployment In A Gender Segregated Labour Market
Mar 2010
This paper analyses factors behind underemployment in Norway and has a focus on gender. The analysis, based on Labour Force Survey data, shows that economic fluctuations during the latest one and...
Provided by Statistics Norway
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Firm Heterogeneity And Wages In Unionised Labour Markets: Theory And Evidence
Nov 2008
In many countries wages are set in two stages, where industry-level collective bargaining is followed by firm-specific arrangements determining actual paid wages as a mark-up on the industry wage...
Provided by Nottingham University
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International Competition, Returns To Skill And Labor Market Adjustment
Mar 2008
This paper examines whether increased import competition induces domestic workers to skill upgrade and/or switch industries. The analysis makes use of a large unique longitudinal matched...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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Exchange Rates And Wages In Unionised Labour Markets
Jun 2010
The authors investigate the impact of exchange rate movements on wage determination in unionised labour markets. Using a simple model of international oligopoly, they show that organised labour...
Provided by Nottingham University
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Exchange Rates, Employment And Labour Market
Jul 2010
There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, the authors show that the...
Provided by University of Minho
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The Price Of Time And Labour Supply: From The Black Death To The Industrious Revolution
Sep 2009
In pre-industrial economies labour supply curves often bend backwards at very low levels of income. This changed prior to the industrial revolution: total working hours increased (De Vries (1993,...
Provided by University of Oxford
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Spatial Effects Of Open Borders On The Czech Labour Market
Aug 2008
Hardly noticed in Western Europe the fall of the Iron Curtain had also effects on the regional structures of the labour markets in the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). The author...
Provided by EconStor
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Low-Wage Employment Versus Unemployment: Which One Provides Better Prospects For Women?
Jan 2010
This paper analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. The authors estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and find...
Provided by EconStor
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Labor Market Pooling And Occupational Agglomeration
Sep 2009
This paper examines the micro-foundations of occupational agglomeration in U.S. metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on labor market pooling. Controlling for a wide range of occupational...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Offshoring And Unemployment
Jun 2007
In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, the authors construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobile...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Happiness Adaptation To Income And To Status In An Individual Panel
Jun 2007
The authors study "Habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, they estimate a "Happiness...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Why Has Unemployment Risen In The New South Africa
Jun 2007
The authors document the rise in unemployment in South Africa since the transition in 1994. They describe the likely causes of this increase and analyze whether the increase in unemployment is due...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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An Analysis Of The Performance Of Federal Indigent Defense Counsel
Jun 2007
The right to an equal and fair trial regardless of wealth is a hallmark of American jurisprudence. To ensure this right, the government pays attorneys to represent financially needy clients. In...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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What Determines Giving To Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence On Income, Race, And Fairness
Jul 2007
The authors investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Evolution Of Inequality In Productivity And Wages: Panel Data Evidence
Aug 2007
There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Impact Of Employer Matching On Savings Plan Participation Under Automatic Enrollment
Aug 2007
Existing research has documented the large impact that automatic enrollment has on savings plan participation. All the companies examined in these studies, however, have combined automatic...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Reassessing The Ins And Outs Of Unemployment
Sep 2007
This paper uses readily accessible data to measure the probability that an employed worker becomes unemployed and the probability that an unemployed worker finds a job, the ins and outs of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Race, Segregation, And Postal Employment: New Evidence On Spatial Mismatch
Aug 2008
The spatial mismatch hypothesis posits that employment decentralization isolated urban blacks from work opportunities. This paper focuses on one large employer that has remained in the central...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Optimal Tax Progressivity In Unionised Labour Markets What Are The Driving Forces?
Oct 2009
In labour markets with collective wage bargaining higher progressivity of the labour income tax creates a trade-off. On the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other...
Provided by Centraal Planbureau
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Oracle and IBM: People are your most valuable asset
Dec 2010
Finance, supply chain leaders and CEOs use fact-based information to make informed decisions that lead their organizations to success. The pressure is on for HR executives to do the same. Read...
Provided by Oracle
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From Industrial Relations To Human Resource Management: The Changing Role Of The Personnel Function
Jul 2008
The evidence from 25 years of the Workplace Employment Relations Surveys shows that a growing number of workplaces have a personnel specialist in place and that an increasing proportion of these...
Provided by National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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CedarCrestone: Maximize Your Talent With Oracle's Unified Solution
Apr 2010
The past two years of economic decline has forced organizations to review the costs of their HR application portfolio, and the results have been eye opening. The expense of maintaining core HCM...
Provided by Oracle
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Defined Benefit Pension Schemes: A Welfare Analysis Of Risk Sharing And Labour Market Distortions
Apr 2011
This CPB Discussion Paper addresses two policy questions with respect to public Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes: Firstly, does a funded DB pension scheme increase welfare? In other words: do...
Provided by Centraal Planbureau
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Information And Communication Technologies And Skill Upgrading: The Role Of Internal Vs External Labour Markets
Feb 2011
Following the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or...
Provided by IZA
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Inflation Dynamics With Labour Market Matching : Assessing Alternative Specifications
May 2009
The key task of central banks is to maintain price stability by controlling inflation and, for this reason, it is important to understand what drives the dynamics of inflation. A crucial element...
Provided by National Bank of Belgium
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Endogenous Growth Mechanism As A Source Of Medium Term Fluctuations In The Labor Market. Application To The US Economy
Apr 2009
A considerable part of the economic literature focuses on the sources and mechanisms of economic cycles. The bulk of this literature, including Real Business Cycle theory (see e.g. papers of...
Provided by National Bank of Poland
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Co-Athoring Advanced Art
Oct 2007
The joint production of paintings by more than one artist was not uncommon in the past: a number of Old Masters had assistants do much of the work on their paintings, executing images that had...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Role Of Temporary Help Employment In Low-wage Worker Advancement
Oct 2007
The authors examine the effects of temporary help service employment on later earnings and employment for individuals participating in three federal programs providing supportive services to those...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Changing Nature Of Wage Inequality
Oct 2007
The paper reviews recent developments in the literature on wage inequality, with a particular focus on why inequality growth has been particularly concentrated in the top end of the wage...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Long-run Changes In The U.S. Wage Structure: Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing
Dec 2007
The U.S. wage structure evolved across the last century: narrowing from 1910 to 1950, fairly stable in the 1950s and 1960s, widening rapidly during the 1980s, and "Polarizing" since the late...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Who Gets What From Employer Pay Or Play Mandates?
Nov 2007
Critics of pay or play mandates, borrowing from the large empirical minimum wage literature, provide evidence that they reduce employment. The vast majority of those who benefit from pay or play...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Temporary Help Services Employment In Portugal, 1995-2000
Nov 2007
Whereas there is widespread belief that workers in Temporary Help Services (THS) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Moving Back Home: Insurance Against Labor Market Risk
Mar 2010
This paper uses an estimated structural model to argue that the option to move in and out of the parental home is an important insurance channel against labor market risk for youths who do not...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Negative Equity Does Not Reduce Homeowners Mobility
Dec 2010
Some commentators have argued that the housing crisis may harm labor markets because homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth are less likely to move to places that have productive job...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Mechanisms For The Association Between Maternal Employment And Child Cognitive Development
Nov 2007
Recent research has found that maternal employment is associated with worse child performance on tests of cognitive ability. This paper explores mechanisms for that correlation. The authors...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Personnel Economics: The Economist's View Of Human Resources
Nov 2007
Personnel economics drills deeply into the firm to study human resource management practices like compensation, hiring practices, training, and teamwork. Many questions are asked. Why should pay...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Wage Structure, Raises And Mobility: International Comparisons Of The Structure Of Wages Within And Across Firms
Nov 2007
The returns to talent or performance have grown over time in developed countries. Is talent concentrated in a few firms or are firms' virtual microcosms of the economy, each having close to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Health, Economic Resources And The Work Decisions Of Older Men
Jan 2008
In this paper, the authors specify a dynamic programming model that addresses the interplay among health, financial resources, and the labor market behavior of men in the later part of their...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Human Simulations Of Language Learning
Oct 2007
One problem with machine models, says the author, is that "They don't try to learn what the human already knows," and the authors really aren't sure "How big a piece of the pie that is in the...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
The Price Of Prejudice: Labour Market Discrimination On The Grounds Of Gender And Ethnicity
Aug 2008
Despite some progress, there is still evidence of discrimination on the grounds of gender and ethnic or racial origins in OECD labour markets. Field experiments show pervasive ethnic...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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White Papers
Labour Market Institutions And The Personal Distribution Of Income In The OECD
Nov 2008
A large literature has studied the impact of labour market institutions on wage inequality, but their effect on income inequality has received little attention. In this paper the authors argue...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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White Papers
Optimal Taxation And Monopsonistic Labor Market: Does Monopsony Justify The Minimum Wage?
Jun 2009
Does monopsony on the labor market in itself justify the implementation of a minimum wage when it would not be used in a competitive economy? This issue is studied in a model of optimal taxation....
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
-
White Papers
Heterogeneity Matters: Labour Productivity Differentiated by Age And Skills
Mar 2011
An ageing population bears important consequences for labour markets. Policy makers and an increasing number of individual organisations as well as private firms realise that early retirement of...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
-
White Papers
Labour Market Institutions In Hungary With A Focus On Wage And Employment Flexibility
Nov 2008
It is widely believed today, that the operation of the labour markets is influenced by institutional factors, affecting macroeconomic adjustment in response to shocks. In this way, labour market...
Provided by Magyar Nemzeti Bank
-
White Papers
Mobility And Human Development
Apr 2009
This paper argues that mobility and migration have always been an intrinsic part of human development. Migration can be considered as a fundamental capabilities-enhancing freedom itself. However,...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
-
White Papers
Human Development Impacts Of Migration: South Africa Case Study
Apr 2009
Controls on human mobility and efforts to undermine them continue to shape South Africa's politics, economy, and society. Despite the need for improved policy responses to human mobility, reform...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
-
White Papers
The Russian Migration Policy And Its Impact On Human Development: The Historical Perspective
Apr 2009
For Russia, migration policy - in terms of internal or/and international migration flows management - was an ever-important element of the State activities. Concentrated on State interests, the...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
-
White Papers
Managing Mobility For Human Development: The Growing Salience Of Mixed Migration
Jun 2009
This paper explores the connections between mixed migration and human development, understood as the expansion of capabilities and choice (Sen 1999). It first clarifies some of the key concepts in...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
-
White Papers
Improving The Measurement Of Human Development
Jul 2010
The authors propose a new Human Development Index that involves a number of changes with respect to the present one, even though it keeps the basic structure of the index (namely, preserving...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
-
White Papers
The Challenges Of Incorporating Empowerment Into The HDI: Some Lessons From Happiness Economics And Quality Of Life Research
Jul 2010
This paper reviews what the authors know about measuring quality of life, based on extensive work with happiness surveys in Latin America, and how that accumulated knowledge can inform the debate...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
-
White Papers
Hope In Hard Times: Women's Empowerment And Human Development
Jul 2010
This paper addresses the conceptual and methodological issues related to women's empowerment, the trends in women's empowerment over the last 20 years in key areas such as education, health,...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
-
White Papers
Punishing High-status Deviants: The Role Of Transgression Severity And Betrayal
Jan 2011
Evaluations of workplace deviant behavior are often biased by the personal characteristics of both deviants and sanctioners. In this paper, the authors focus on the characteristics of deviants and...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Marry For What: Caste And Mate Selection In Modern India
May 2009
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. The authors use a unique data set on individuals...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Where Does The Wage Penalty Bite?
May 2009
The literature examining the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and wages has fairly consistently found that BMI has a negative impact on earnings for women, and less (if any) consequences...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Short Run Constraints And The Increasing Marginal Value Of Time In Recreation
May 2009
Leisure activities such as local recreation trips usually take place in discrete blocks of time that are surrounded by time devoted to other commitments. It can be costly to transfer time between...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Comparative Advantage And Unemployment
Jun 2009
The authors model unemployment allowing workers to differ by comparative advantage in market work. Workers with comparative advantage are identified by who works more hours when employed. This...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Inequality Trends For Germany In The Last Two Decades: A Tale Of Two Countries
Jun 2009
In this paper the authors first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany from the last twenty years. They generally find that inequality was...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Tax Incidence In Dynamic Economies With Externalities And Endogenous Labor Supply
Nov 2007
This paper examines the long-run incidence of factor income taxes and expenditure taxes in an infinitely lived representative agent growth model which allows both for production externalities and...
Provided by Hokkaido University
-
White Papers
Real Exchange Rate, Productivity And Labor Market Rigidities
Feb 2009
The authors extend the classic Balassa-Samuelson model to an environment with search unemployment. They show that the classic Balassa-Samuelson model with the assumption of full employment emerges...
Provided by Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research
-
White Papers
The Labor Market Effects Of The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
May 2010
This paper provides an empirical examination of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. This analysis of taxable sales in the counties in which Olympic events took place finds that...
Provided by College of the Holy Cross
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White Papers
The Long Term Consequences Of Famine On Survivors: Evidence From A Unique Natural Experiment Using China~s Great Famine
Mar 2010
This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's Great Famine. To address problems of measurement error of famine exposure and potential endogeneity of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
A Structural Estimation Of The CES Preferences And Linear Labor Supply: The Case Of Prime-Age Males In Japan
Mar 2008
The tax simulation studies in Japan have necessarily relied on arbitrary sets of preference parameters due to the paucity of the empirical estimates. Motivated by this state of the art, the...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
-
White Papers
Neighbors And Co-Workers: The Importance Of Residential Labor Market Networks
Mar 2010
The authors specify and implement a test for the presence and importance of labor market network based on residential proximity in determining the establishments at which people work. Using...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
-
White Papers
Labor-Market Attachment And Training Participation
Jul 2010
This paper examines how expected attachment to the labor market and expected tenure at a specific firm affect training participation. The results, based on cross-sectional data from Japan,...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
-
White Papers
Social Security Earnings Test And The Labor Supply Of The Elderly: New Evidence From Unique Survey Responses In Japan
May 2010
Although there exists a large volume of literature on the subject, a consensus on the labor supply effects of the social security earnings test for the elderly has yet to be reached. This paper...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
-
White Papers
On The Economic Architecture Of The Workplace: Repercussions Of Social Comparisons Among Heterogeneous Workers
Feb 2011
The authors analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. They consider...
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Social Networks And Labor Market Entry Barriers: Understanding Inter-Industrial Wage Differentials In Urban China
Sep 2009
An entry barrier in the labor market can be an important source of wage inequality. This paper finds that social networks, father's education and political status, and urban household registration...
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Early Labour Market Returns To College Subjects
Apr 2008
This paper aims at estimating early labour market outcomes of Italian university graduates across college subjects. The authors devote great attention to endogenous selection issues using...
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Employment Growth and International Trade: A Small Open Economy Perspective
May 2009
In this paper, the authors use a detailed dataset containing information about all international trade transactions of the population of Danish firms over more than a decade to analyze the...
Provided by Aarhus School of Business
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Looking Beyond The Bridge: How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes
May 2010
The authors perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, they not only investigate...
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Hysteresis In Unemployment: Old And New Evidence
Mar 2009
This paper argues that hysteresis helps explain the long-run behavior of unemployment. The natural rate of unemployment is influenced by the path of actual unemployment, and hence by shifts in...
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Exploring Differences In Employment Between Household And Establishment Data
Mar 2009
Using a large data set that links individual Current Population Survey (CPS) records to employer-reported administrative data, the authors document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of...
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Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive
Feb 2009
The authors provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions...
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The Economics And Psychology Of Inequality And Human Development
Jan 2009
Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of...
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Unemployment, Market Work And Household Production
Jan 2009
Using time-diary data from four countries the authors show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household...
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This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes In Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age
Jan 2009
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. The authors study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations...
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Do Bequests Increase Or Decrease Wealth Inequalities?
Jan 2009
This paper finds that individuals in Japan do not leave very significant bequests, that parents often require a quid pro quo for bequests to their children, and that wealthier individuals leave...
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No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence On The Relationship Between Education And Labor Market Segmentation
Oct 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the...
Provided by Inter-American Development Bank
