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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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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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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Webcasts
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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Webcasts
Earth Systems Engineering And Management
Oct 2007
If you take as a given that humans now live on a geoengineered planet, then what is the responsibility for the future? Before discussing how to deal with Earth systems, the author asks that we...
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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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...
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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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...
Provided by Aarhus School of Business
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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...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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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...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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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...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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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...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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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...
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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White Papers
Frictional Wage Dispersion In Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment
Dec 2007
Standard search and matching models of equilibrium unemployment, once properly calibrated, can generate only a small amount of frictional wage dispersion, i.e., wage differentials among ex-ante...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Private Deception And The Rise Of Public Employment Offices In The United States, 1890 - 1930
Sep 2008
At the turn of the 20th century, state and local governments in the United States began to establish public employment offices. These non-profit governmental organizations match job seekers and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Parental Leave Policies And Parents Employment And Leave-taking
Dec 2007
Utilizing data from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement merged with data from other months of the CPS, the authors describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Impact Of Immigration On The Labour Market Outcomes Of New Zealanders
Apr 2009
This paper uses data from the 1996, 2001 and 2006 New Zealand Census to examine how the supply of immigrants in particular skill-groups affects the employment and wages of the New Zealand-born and...
Provided by MOTU
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The Impact Of Globalisation With Rigid Labour Markets
Aug 2007
The public debate reveals that people are unsettled about the impact of the current globalisation wave. News about job losses fuels this unrest regularly. It is a matter of fact that firms...
Provided by University of Munich
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The Employment Cycles Of Neighboring Cities
Mar 2011
This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of neighboring cities tend to be more similar to one another than are those of...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Effect Of Hours Of Work On Social Interaction
Jan 2008
Over time, increases in hours of work per capita have created the intuitively plausible notion that there is less time available to pursue social interactions. The specific question addressed in...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Minimally Altruistic Wages And Unemployment In A Matching Model
Jan 2008
This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Search And Rest Unemployment
Feb 2008
This paper extends Lucas and Prescott's (1974) search model to develop a notion of rest unemployment. The economy consists of a continuum of labor markets, each of which produces a heterogeneous...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Marginal Jobs, Heterogeneous Firms, & Unemployment Flows
Jan 2011
This paper introduces a notion of fir m size into a search and matching model with endogenous job destruction. The outcome is a rich, yet analytically tractable framework that can be used to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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I'd Rather Be Hanged For A Sheep Than A Lamb: The Unintended Consequences Of 'Three-Strikes' Laws
Feb 2008
Strong sentences are common "Tough on crime" tool used to reduce the incentives for individuals to participate in criminal activity. However, the design of such policies often ignores other...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Where Is Full Employment?
Oct 2007
Unemployment in Australia is now at its lowest in over 30 years. The rate for April 2007, for example, of 4.4 per cent, is substantially less than the previous trough of 5.6 per cent, in 1989....
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Quality Of Life In The Regions: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis For West German Labor Markets
Oct 2008
Which of Germanys regions is the most attractive? Where is it best to live and work - on objective grounds? These questions are summed up in the concept "Quality of life". This paper uses recent...
Provided by Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Münster
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The Human Development Index As A Criterion For Optimal Planning
May 2008
Planning strategies that maximize the Human Development Index (HDI) tend towards minimizing consumption and maximizing non-investment expenditures on education and health. Interestingly, such...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Increase In Leisure Inequality
Mar 2008
This paper examines the changing allocation of time within the United States that has occurred between 1965 and 2003-2005. The authors find that the time individuals have allocated to leisure has...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Does Temporary Help Work Provide A Stepping Stone To Regular Employment?
Mar 2008
Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover And Improve Skills Of New Employees? Evidence From Teachers In New York City
Mar 2008
Mentoring has become an extremely popular policy for improving the retention and performance of new teachers, but the authors know little about its effects on teacher and student outcomes. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Imperfect Substitution Between Immigrants And Natives: A Reappraisal
Mar 2008
In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect substitutes within narrowly defined skill groups. The resulting complementarities...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Labor Markets And Monetary Policy: A New-keynesian Model With Unemployment
Mar 2008
The authors construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and draw its implications for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence From Firm Level Survey In India
Jun 2009
This paper attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India's organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive...
Provided by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
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The Employment Potential Of Labor Intensive Industries In India's Organized Manufacturing
Jun 2009
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data...
Provided by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
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White Papers
The Employed, The Unemployed, And The Unemployable: Directed Search With Worker Heterogeneity
Mar 2010
The authors examine the implications of worker heterogeneity on the equilibrium matching process, using a directed search model. Worker abilities are selected from a general distribution, subject...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Maximizing Human Development
Oct 2010
The Human Development Index (HDI) is widely used as an aggregate measure of overall human well being. The authors examine the allocations implied by the maximization of this index, using a...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Manage ~Human Capital~ Strategically
Apr 2011
Education is a people-intensive proposition. By most estimates, 85% of school and district budgets are devoted to salaries and benefits, a figure that means that the manner in which leaders...
Provided by Editorial Projects in Education
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White Papers
Population Aging, Older Workers, And Canada~s Labour Force
Sep 2009
The Expert Panel on Older Workers made recommendations designed to increase the labour force participation of older workers. The authors explore the implications that higher rates of older-worker...
Provided by McMaster University
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White Papers
Moral Hazard Vs. Liquidity And Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Apr 2008
This paper presents new evidence on why Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits affect search behavior and develops a simple method of calculating the welfare gains from UI using this evidence. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Impact Of Employment During School On College Student Academic Performance
May 2008
This paper estimates the effect of paid employment on grades of full-time, four-year students from four nationally representative cross sections of the Harvard College Alcohol Study administered...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Searching For Optimal Inequality/Incentives
May 2008
This paper examines the evolution of economic inequality in Sweden before, during and after the major macro-economic recession in the early 1990s. Earnings and income inequality increased after...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Macroeconomic Implications Of Rising Wage Inequality In The United States
Jun 2008
In recent decades, the US wage structure has been transformed by a rising college premium, a narrowing gender gap, and increasing persistent and transitory residual wage dispersion. This paper...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Evolution Of The Labor Market and Leisure Industries In Spain: Quality Of Life Versus Standard Of Living
Jun 2008
The authors discuss the effects that the emergence of the new post-industrial form of flexible capitalist organization has on the Spanish labor market and, by extension, on the working life of two...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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The History Of Manpower Forecasting In Modelling Labour Market
Jun 2008
The Manpower Forecasting Approach (MFA) was one of the first attempts in educational planning purposes. Manpower planners attempted: to calculate the demand for manpower classified by occupation;...
Provided by Università di Macerata
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White Papers
Matching Higher Education And Labour Market In The Knowledge Economy: The Much Needed Reform Of University Governance In Italy
Jun 2010
In the knowledge economy and current public finance constraints, matching higher education and labour market is not one of the main issues in higher education policy sustainability: it is "The...
Provided by Università di Macerata
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White Papers
Immigration And National Wages: Clarifying The Theory And The Empirics
Jul 2008
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) the authors focus on national labor markets for workers of different...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
What~s A Recession, Anyway?
Aug 2008
Monthly US data on payroll employment, civilian employment, industrial production and the unemployment rate are used to define a recession-dating algorithm that nearly perfectly reproduces the...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Shared Capitalism In The U.S. Economy? Prevalence, Characteristics, And Employee Views Of Financial Participation In Enterprises
Aug 2008
Between one-third and one-half of employees participate directly in company performance through profit sharing, gainsharing, employee ownership, or stock options. This flies in the face of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Worker Responses To Shirking Under Shared Capitalism
Aug 2008
Group incentive systems have to overcome the free rider or 1/N problem, which gives workers an incentive to shirk, if they are to succeed. This paper uses new questions on responses to shirking...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Do Workers Gain By Sharing? Employee Outcomes Under Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, And Broad-based Stock Options
Aug 2008
This paper examines how shared capitalism compensation systems - those that link employee pay to company performance - affect diverse employee outcomes. It uses two data sets: the national GSS...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Who Has A Better Idea? Innovation, Shared Capitalism, And HR Policies
Aug 2008
The authors investigate the relationship of "Shared capitalist" compensation systems - profit/gainsharing, employee ownership, and stock options - to the culture for innovation and employees'...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Does Employee Ignorance Undermine Shared Capitalism?
Aug 2008
The potential of shared capitalism to improve individual and organizational performance through financial incentives depends on employees knowing about and participating in compensation plans that...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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Webcasts
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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Webcasts
Earth Systems Engineering And Management
Oct 2007
If you take as a given that humans now live on a geoengineered planet, then what is the responsibility for the future? Before discussing how to deal with Earth systems, the author asks that we...
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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