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Proportionality: An Assault On Human Rights?
Nov 2008
Balancing is the main method used by a number of constitutional courts around the world to resolve conflicts of fundamentals rights. The European Court of Human Rights is routinely balancing human...
Provided by New York University School of Law
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White Papers
Understanding Sectoral Labor Market Dynamics: An Equilibrium Analysis Of The Oil And Gas Field Services
Mar 2008
This paper examines the response of employment and wages in the US oil and gas field services industry to changes in the price of crude petroleum using a time series of quarterly data spanning the...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
A Dynamic Analysis Of Human Welfare In A Warming Planet
Aug 2008
Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions have caused atmospheric concentrations with no precedents in the last half a million years, inducing serious uncertainties about future climates and...
Provided by Yale University
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Webcasts
What Does Re-Engineering Mean For Real Estate?
Oct 2010
Moderated by prominent real estate economist, this panel includes five senior executives with well over a century of collective experience at major development and investment firms and an industry...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations In Building Technology
Oct 2010
The built environment consumes a very large share of the nation's energy, and so offers rich opportunities for reducing the overall carbon footprint. MIT researchers share innovations that could...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Engineering Smarter Drivers
Oct 2010
While automakers market increasingly intelligent cars, they may be missing the point. No matter how sophisticated the vehicle's brain, suggests by the author, the smartest element on the road is...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Economics, Area Studies And Human Development
Jul 2009
This paper suggests that area studies and economics have a better chance to be married successfully if the authors shift the attention from the exclusive emphasis on economic growth towards...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Country Patterns Of Behavior On Broader Dimensions Of Human Development
Nov 2007
This paper adopts a more expansive definition of Human Development than that encompassed by the Human Development Index in order to explore diverse country patterns of behavior in relation to...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Understanding Sectoral Labor Market Dynamics: An Equilibrium Analysis Of The Oil And Gas Field Services Industry
Mar 2008
This paper examines the response of employment and wages in the US oil and gas field services industry to changes in the price of crude petroleum using a time series of quarterly data spanning the...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Is There Surplus Labor In Rural India?
Oct 2010
The authors show empirically using panel data at the plot and farm level and based on a model incorporating supervision costs, risk, credit-market imperfections and scale-economies associated with...
Provided by Yale University
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Webcasts
Blended Learning Revisited
Mar 2010
Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes by one of the authors. Traditional educational methods...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Contemplative Dimensions Of Human Experience
Apr 2009
In a mind-stretching talk covering the history of the planet, development of higher-order consciousness, and East-West religious practices, the author claims that humanity is poised to take its...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Estimation Of Alternative Models Of Female Labour Supply With Fixed Travel Costs
Jun 2010
The authors formalize the joint choice of labor force participation and mode of travel to work together with the hours of work decision for unitary and collective households. Conditioning on the...
Provided by University of York
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White Papers
Shareholders And Employees: Rent Transfer And Rent Sharing In Corporate Takeovers
Aug 2010
The introduction of the ideology of maximizing shareholder value and the rise of institutional investors in LMEs contributed to the development of an active MCC, which threatens managers with...
Provided by University of York
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White Papers
Response Bias In Job Satisfaction Surveys: English General Practitioners
Nov 2008
Job satisfaction may affect the propensity to respond to job satisfaction surveys, so that estimates of average satisfaction and the effects of determinants of satisfaction may be biased. The...
Provided by University of York
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White Papers
Discrete Choice Modelling Of Labour Supply In Luxembourg Through Euromod Microsimulation
Aug 2010
In this paper, the household labor supply is modeled as a discrete choice problem assuming that preference for leisure and consumption can be described by a quadratic utility function which allows...
Provided by University of Essex
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White Papers
Does Foreign Presence Stimulate Creative Destruction In Local Markets?
Dec 2007
This paper studies the effect of Foreign-Owned Companies (FOCs) in the region on establishment survival and growth in the Finnish business sector. The authors analyze whether the presence of the...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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White Papers
The Labour Market Consequences Of Selfemployment Spells: European Evidence
Mar 2008
The authors examine how those re-entering paid-employment after a brief self-employment spell fare upon return using data from the European Community Household Panel. Unconditionally, those...
Provided by University of Jyväskylä
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White Papers
Public R&D Subsidies And Employment Growth - Microeconomic Evidence From Finnish Firms
Nov 2008
This paper empirically explores whether the public financial support for entrepreneurial R&D affects employment growth at the firm level. The data from the Finnish companies suggests that the...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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White Papers
Education - A Job Market Signal?
Aug 2008
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signaling and on education as a job market signal. Possible economic implications of educational job market signaling to...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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White Papers
Health, Income, And The Timing Of Education Among Military Retirees
Feb 2010
There is a large and robust correlation between adult health and education, part of which likely reflects causality running from education into health. Less clear is whether education obtained...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Adjustment In The Euro Area And Regulation Of Product And Labour Markets: An Empirical Assessment
Oct 2008
This paper analyses how price-competitiveness (measured by both real exchange rate and inflation differentials) adjusts with the euro area and what role labour and product market regulations can...
Provided by University of Chicago
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White Papers
Adjustment Capacity Of Labour Markets Of The Western Balkans, With A Focus On Labour Markets
Nov 2008
The main question addressed in this paper is the performance of the labor markets in the Western Balkans. The aim was to find out whether they can deliver growth of employment and decline of...
Provided by European Communities
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White Papers
Institutions And Performance In European Labour Markets: Taking A Fresh Look At Evidence
Nov 2009
This paper presents a selective survey of the recent literature on labor market institutions and offers new empirical EU-based evidence on the impact of labor market reforms on employment and...
Provided by European Communities
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White Papers
The Relative Utility Hypothesis With And Without Self-reported Reference Wages
Nov 2010
This paper uses survey data of 90,000 union employees working in 62 publicly traded companies in Japan between 1990 and 2004 to study the effect of both own and self-reported reference wages on...
Provided by Collegio Carlo Alberto
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White Papers
Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency And Unemployment In Iraq And The Philippines
Dec 2010
Most aid spending by governments seeking to rebuild social and political order is based on an opportunity-cost theory of distracting potential recruits. The logic is that gainfully employed young...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Effect Of Immigration On Productivity: Evidence From US States
Nov 2009
Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states the authors analyze the impact of immigration on state employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Impact Of Minimum Wage Rates On Body Weight In The United States
Nov 2009
Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially "Fast food", has been cited as a potential cause of increasing rate of obesity in the United States over the past several...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It~s All In The Timing
Oct 2009
Do shocks to government spending raise or lower consumption and real wages? Standard VAR identification approaches show a rise in these variables, whereas the Ramey-Shapiro narrative...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Jobs In Springfield, Massachusetts: Understanding And Remedying The Causes Of Low Resident Employment Rates
Feb 2010
As part of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's commitment to supporting efforts to revitalize the economy of Springfield, Massachusetts, this paper explores the causes of and potential remedies...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt The Employed? Evidence From The Life Satisfaction Gap Between The Public And Private Sectors
Mar 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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White Papers
Employer Monopsony Power In The Labor Market For Undocumented Workers
Apr 2009
Using matched employer-employee data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the potential for employer monophony power in the labor market for undocumented workers. The authors find...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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White Papers
Technology Shocks, Employment, And Labor Market Frictions
Feb 2008
Recent empirical evidence suggests that a positive technology shock leads to a decline in labor inputs. However, the standard real business cycle model fails to account for this empirical...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Firm Entry And Labor Market Dynamics
Aug 2008
The authors present a model of aggregate fluctuations in which monopolistic firms face sunk costs to enter the production process and labor markets are characterized by search and matching...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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White Papers
Public Pensions And Labor Supply Over The Life Cycle
Aug 2010
Virtually all developed countries face projected budget shortfalls for their public pension programs. The shortfalls arise for two reasons. First, populations in developed countries are aging...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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White Papers
Mismatch In The Labor Market: Measuring The Supply Of And Demand For Skilled Labor In New England
Nov 2010
Over the past decade, policymakers and business leaders across New England have been concerned that the region's slower population growth and loss of residents to other parts of the country will...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Employment, Exchange Rates And Labour Market Rigidity
Feb 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 Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros
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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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White Papers
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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Webcasts
American Business: Stopping Employee Theft
Mar 2011
The betrayal and financial loss of having an employee steal from you can be emotionally draining. The founder of the Shulman Center for Compulsive Theft and Spending; an attorney and chair of the...
Provided by American Express Company
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White Papers
The Causes And Effects Of International Labor Mobility: Evidence From OECD Countries 1980-2005
Dec 2009
This paper contains three important contributions to the literature on international migrations. First, it compiles a new dataset on migration flows and stocks and on immigration laws for 14 OECD...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration Of Skilled-Worker Mobility And Development
Dec 2009
Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing counties choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
A Human Development Index
Dec 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Did Immigrants In The U.S. Labor Market Make Conditions Worse For Native Workers During The Great Recession?
Jan 2011
Did the presence of immigrant workers in the United States labor market - including both documented and undocumented workers - significantly affect conditions for low-wage native workers during...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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Labor Share Dynamics: A Survey Of The Theory
Oct 2009
Labor share dynamics has been viewed as a minor concern in the years before the actual crisis. Despite in many European countries income distribution was increasingly favouring capital, this fact...
Provided by Università degli Studi di Parma
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White Papers
Advertising, Labor Supply And The Aggregate Economy. A Long Run Analysis
Nov 2009
This paper studies the influence of persuasive advertising in a neoclassical growth model with monopolistically competitive firms. The findings show that advertising can significantly affect the...
Provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Can Labor Market Imperfections Cause Overprovision Of Public Inputs?
Nov 2009
In a model where trade unions dominate the labor market, a relationship is derived between the rate of unemployment and the provision of a public input in the production. This relationship implies...
Provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
Understanding Sectoral Labor Market Dynamics: An Equilibrium Analysis Of The Oil And Gas Field Services
Mar 2008
This paper examines the response of employment and wages in the US oil and gas field services industry to changes in the price of crude petroleum using a time series of quarterly data spanning the...
Provided by Yale University
-
White Papers
A Dynamic Analysis Of Human Welfare In A Warming Planet
Aug 2008
Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions have caused atmospheric concentrations with no precedents in the last half a million years, inducing serious uncertainties about future climates and...
Provided by Yale University
-
Webcasts
What Does Re-Engineering Mean For Real Estate?
Oct 2010
Moderated by prominent real estate economist, this panel includes five senior executives with well over a century of collective experience at major development and investment firms and an industry...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations In Building Technology
Oct 2010
The built environment consumes a very large share of the nation's energy, and so offers rich opportunities for reducing the overall carbon footprint. MIT researchers share innovations that could...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Engineering Smarter Drivers
Oct 2010
While automakers market increasingly intelligent cars, they may be missing the point. No matter how sophisticated the vehicle's brain, suggests by the author, the smartest element on the road is...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Economics, Area Studies And Human Development
Jul 2009
This paper suggests that area studies and economics have a better chance to be married successfully if the authors shift the attention from the exclusive emphasis on economic growth towards...
Provided by Yale University
-
White Papers
Country Patterns Of Behavior On Broader Dimensions Of Human Development
Nov 2007
This paper adopts a more expansive definition of Human Development than that encompassed by the Human Development Index in order to explore diverse country patterns of behavior in relation to...
Provided by Yale University
-
White Papers
Understanding Sectoral Labor Market Dynamics: An Equilibrium Analysis Of The Oil And Gas Field Services Industry
Mar 2008
This paper examines the response of employment and wages in the US oil and gas field services industry to changes in the price of crude petroleum using a time series of quarterly data spanning the...
Provided by Yale University
-
White Papers
Is There Surplus Labor In Rural India?
Oct 2010
The authors show empirically using panel data at the plot and farm level and based on a model incorporating supervision costs, risk, credit-market imperfections and scale-economies associated with...
Provided by Yale University
-
Webcasts
Blended Learning Revisited
Mar 2010
Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes by one of the authors. Traditional educational methods...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Webcasts
Contemplative Dimensions Of Human Experience
Apr 2009
In a mind-stretching talk covering the history of the planet, development of higher-order consciousness, and East-West religious practices, the author claims that humanity is poised to take its...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Estimation Of Alternative Models Of Female Labour Supply With Fixed Travel Costs
Jun 2010
The authors formalize the joint choice of labor force participation and mode of travel to work together with the hours of work decision for unitary and collective households. Conditioning on the...
Provided by University of York
-
White Papers
Shareholders And Employees: Rent Transfer And Rent Sharing In Corporate Takeovers
Aug 2010
The introduction of the ideology of maximizing shareholder value and the rise of institutional investors in LMEs contributed to the development of an active MCC, which threatens managers with...
Provided by University of York
-
White Papers
Response Bias In Job Satisfaction Surveys: English General Practitioners
Nov 2008
Job satisfaction may affect the propensity to respond to job satisfaction surveys, so that estimates of average satisfaction and the effects of determinants of satisfaction may be biased. The...
Provided by University of York
-
White Papers
Discrete Choice Modelling Of Labour Supply In Luxembourg Through Euromod Microsimulation
Aug 2010
In this paper, the household labor supply is modeled as a discrete choice problem assuming that preference for leisure and consumption can be described by a quadratic utility function which allows...
Provided by University of Essex
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White Papers
Does Foreign Presence Stimulate Creative Destruction In Local Markets?
Dec 2007
This paper studies the effect of Foreign-Owned Companies (FOCs) in the region on establishment survival and growth in the Finnish business sector. The authors analyze whether the presence of the...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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White Papers
The Labour Market Consequences Of Selfemployment Spells: European Evidence
Mar 2008
The authors examine how those re-entering paid-employment after a brief self-employment spell fare upon return using data from the European Community Household Panel. Unconditionally, those...
Provided by University of Jyväskylä
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White Papers
Public R&D Subsidies And Employment Growth - Microeconomic Evidence From Finnish Firms
Nov 2008
This paper empirically explores whether the public financial support for entrepreneurial R&D affects employment growth at the firm level. The data from the Finnish companies suggests that the...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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White Papers
Education - A Job Market Signal?
Aug 2008
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signaling and on education as a job market signal. Possible economic implications of educational job market signaling to...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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White Papers
Health, Income, And The Timing Of Education Among Military Retirees
Feb 2010
There is a large and robust correlation between adult health and education, part of which likely reflects causality running from education into health. Less clear is whether education obtained...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Adjustment In The Euro Area And Regulation Of Product And Labour Markets: An Empirical Assessment
Oct 2008
This paper analyses how price-competitiveness (measured by both real exchange rate and inflation differentials) adjusts with the euro area and what role labour and product market regulations can...
Provided by University of Chicago
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White Papers
Adjustment Capacity Of Labour Markets Of The Western Balkans, With A Focus On Labour Markets
Nov 2008
The main question addressed in this paper is the performance of the labor markets in the Western Balkans. The aim was to find out whether they can deliver growth of employment and decline of...
Provided by European Communities
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White Papers
Institutions And Performance In European Labour Markets: Taking A Fresh Look At Evidence
Nov 2009
This paper presents a selective survey of the recent literature on labor market institutions and offers new empirical EU-based evidence on the impact of labor market reforms on employment and...
Provided by European Communities
-
White Papers
The Relative Utility Hypothesis With And Without Self-reported Reference Wages
Nov 2010
This paper uses survey data of 90,000 union employees working in 62 publicly traded companies in Japan between 1990 and 2004 to study the effect of both own and self-reported reference wages on...
Provided by Collegio Carlo Alberto
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White Papers
Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency And Unemployment In Iraq And The Philippines
Dec 2010
Most aid spending by governments seeking to rebuild social and political order is based on an opportunity-cost theory of distracting potential recruits. The logic is that gainfully employed young...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
The Effect Of Immigration On Productivity: Evidence From US States
Nov 2009
Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states the authors analyze the impact of immigration on state employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Impact Of Minimum Wage Rates On Body Weight In The United States
Nov 2009
Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially "Fast food", has been cited as a potential cause of increasing rate of obesity in the United States over the past several...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It~s All In The Timing
Oct 2009
Do shocks to government spending raise or lower consumption and real wages? Standard VAR identification approaches show a rise in these variables, whereas the Ramey-Shapiro narrative...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Jobs In Springfield, Massachusetts: Understanding And Remedying The Causes Of Low Resident Employment Rates
Feb 2010
As part of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's commitment to supporting efforts to revitalize the economy of Springfield, Massachusetts, this paper explores the causes of and potential remedies...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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White Papers
Why Does Unemployment Hurt The Employed? Evidence From The Life Satisfaction Gap Between The Public And Private Sectors
Mar 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Employer Monopsony Power In The Labor Market For Undocumented Workers
Apr 2009
Using matched employer-employee data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the potential for employer monophony power in the labor market for undocumented workers. The authors find...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Technology Shocks, Employment, And Labor Market Frictions
Feb 2008
Recent empirical evidence suggests that a positive technology shock leads to a decline in labor inputs. However, the standard real business cycle model fails to account for this empirical...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Firm Entry And Labor Market Dynamics
Aug 2008
The authors present a model of aggregate fluctuations in which monopolistic firms face sunk costs to enter the production process and labor markets are characterized by search and matching...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Public Pensions And Labor Supply Over The Life Cycle
Aug 2010
Virtually all developed countries face projected budget shortfalls for their public pension programs. The shortfalls arise for two reasons. First, populations in developed countries are aging...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Mismatch In The Labor Market: Measuring The Supply Of And Demand For Skilled Labor In New England
Nov 2010
Over the past decade, policymakers and business leaders across New England have been concerned that the region's slower population growth and loss of residents to other parts of the country will...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Employment, Exchange Rates And Labour Market Rigidity
Feb 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 Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros
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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
