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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...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
An Experimental Study Of Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class And Neighborhood In Chile
May 2008
The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender discrimination. In order to transcend the limitations of earlier works, an...
Provided by Inter-American Development Bank
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White Papers
Revisiting Labour And Gender Issues In Export Processing Zones: The Cases Of South Korea, Bangladesh And India
Oct 2008
The establishment of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) is a strategy for economic development that was introduced almost fifty years ago and is nowadays employed in a large number of countries. While...
Provided by Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
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White Papers
Chronically Dissatisfied: Work Characteristics, Personal Expectations And Job Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence In Young Italian Workers
Jan 2011
Job satisfaction is the degree to which people like their jobs. Companies are interested in job satisfaction of their employees, because it is positively correlated with certain desired outcomes...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Going On The Long Race? - Employment Duration And (De)Regulation Of Experimental Stochastic Labor Markets -
Sep 2009
If the future market wage is uncertain, engaging in long-term employment is risky, with the risk depending on how regulated the labor market is. In the experiment long-term employment can result...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
Top Wage Incomes In Japan, 1951-2005
Dec 2008
Using wage income tax statistics, the authors construct continuous series of upper wage income shares in Japan from 1951 to 2005 to document the evolution of top wage incomes and investigate their...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Heights And Human Welfare: Recent Developments And New Directions
Jan 2009
Since 1995 approximately 325 publications on stature have appeared in the social sciences, which is more than a four-fold increase in the rate of production relative to the period 1977-1994. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Dynamic Globalization And Its Potentially Alarming Prospects For Low-Wage Workers
Dec 2008
Will incomes of low and high skilled workers continue to diverge? Yes says the paper's dynamic, six-good, five-region - U.S., Europe, N.E. Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong), China, and India...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
A Depressing Scenario: Mortgage Debt Becomes Unemployment Insurance
Nov 2008
When asset values fall, the owners of collateralized loans are not in an enviable position. Nonetheless, they possess a kind of monopoly power over their borrowers that they do not possess when...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Work Expectations, Realizations, And Depression In Older Workers
Oct 2008
The authors explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. The sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Fooling Some Of The People All Of The Time: The Inefficient Performance And Persistence Of Commodity Trading Advisors
Oct 2008
Investors face significant barriers in evaluating the performance of hedge funds and Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs). The only available performance data comes from voluntary reporting to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Limited Partnership In New York, 1822-1853: Partnerships Without Kinship
Oct 2008
In 1822, New York became the first common-law state to authorize the formation of limited partnerships, and over the ensuing decades, many other states followed. Most prior research has suggested...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Labor Market Entry And Earnings Dynamics: Bayesian Inference Using Mixtures-Of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering
Nov 2010
This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market entrants over their life cycle. The authors identify four distinctly different types of transition patterns between...
Provided by Johannes Kepler University of Linz
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White Papers
The Value Of A Statistical Injury: New Evidence From The Swiss Labor Market
Sep 2009
The authors' study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry skill-level of the job and capitalizing on...
Provided by University of Zurich
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White Papers
Mandatory Sick Pay Provision: A Labor Market Experiment
Mar 2010
Sick-pay is a common provision in labor contracts. It insures workers against a sudden loss of income due to unexpected absences and helps them smooth consumption. Therefore, many governments find...
Provided by Heidelberg University
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White Papers
Do You Think Your Risk Is Fair Paid? Evidence From Italian Labor Market
Feb 2009
Starting from Adam Smith's intuition, compensating wage differentials are one of the most widespread explanations to describe why agents should bear occupational risk of injury and death. For...
Provided by University of Calabria
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White Papers
The (Long) Run Out Of Unemployment Are Temporary Jobs The Shortest Way?
Apr 2008
A higher job creation is a common result by many theoretical approaches trying to model marginal labor market reforms. In the frame-work proposed by Berton and Garibaldi [2006], in particular, the...
Provided by Laboratorio Riccardo Revelli
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White Papers
Labour Market And Unemployment In Sudan
Jan 2011
This paper examines the structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of the analysis in this paper is that the authors explain several stylized facts on labour market using...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
Human Resource Management And Learning For Innovation: Pharmaceuticals In Mexico
Jan 2010
This paper investigates the influence of human resource management on learning from internal and external sources of knowledge. Learning for innovation is a key ingredient of catching-up...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
The Demographics Of Fund Turnover
Feb 2011
This paper documents various demographic factors which influence mutual fund turnover including managerial experience, location, education, and gender. On average, funds in financial centers trade...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Active Labor Market Policy By A Profit Maximizing Firm
Aug 2010
This paper investigates the effectiveness of an employment program exclusively run by and in a private sector firm, in order to find out whether a private program without cream-skimming can be...
Provided by Maastricht University
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White Papers
Real Wage Inequality
Apr 2010
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the difference between the wage of college graduates and high school graduates over the past 30 years. The author shows that from 1980...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies
Sep 2008
The behavioral revolution in economics has demonstrated that human beings often have difficulty making wise choices. The most widely chronicled difficulties arise for decisions made under...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Wage Formation Between Newly Hired Workers And Employers: Survey Evidence
Sep 2008
Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Long-term Care Of The Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving By Spouses?
Sep 2008
Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? The authors develop two models in which the anticipated behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
An Evaluation Of The Forecast Of The Indicator Of The Labour Market Gap
Jul 2009
This evaluation study has been conducted within the framework of the Education and Labour Market Project (POA). The project is funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), the...
Provided by Maastricht University
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White Papers
Human Resource Management Practices And Learning For Innovation In Developing Countries
Dec 2010
The use of the systems of innovation framework to study learning and innovation dates back to the mid-1980s (Freeman 2002; Lundvall et al., 2002). The most immediate roots trace back to three...
Provided by Maastricht University
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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
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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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White Papers
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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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 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
Human Resource Management Practices And Learning For Innovation In Developing Countries
Dec 2010
The use of the systems of innovation framework to study learning and innovation dates back to the mid-1980s (Freeman 2002; Lundvall et al., 2002). The most immediate roots trace back to three...
Provided by Maastricht University
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White Papers
An Evaluation Of The Forecast Of The Indicator Of The Labour Market Gap
Jul 2009
This evaluation study has been conducted within the framework of the Education and Labour Market Project (POA). The project is funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), the...
Provided by Maastricht University
-
White Papers
Long-term Care Of The Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving By Spouses?
Sep 2008
Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? The authors develop two models in which the anticipated behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Wage Formation Between Newly Hired Workers And Employers: Survey Evidence
Sep 2008
Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies
Sep 2008
The behavioral revolution in economics has demonstrated that human beings often have difficulty making wise choices. The most widely chronicled difficulties arise for decisions made under...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Real Wage Inequality
Apr 2010
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the difference between the wage of college graduates and high school graduates over the past 30 years. The author shows that from 1980...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Active Labor Market Policy By A Profit Maximizing Firm
Aug 2010
This paper investigates the effectiveness of an employment program exclusively run by and in a private sector firm, in order to find out whether a private program without cream-skimming can be...
Provided by Maastricht University
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White Papers
The Demographics Of Fund Turnover
Feb 2011
This paper documents various demographic factors which influence mutual fund turnover including managerial experience, location, education, and gender. On average, funds in financial centers trade...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Human Resource Management And Learning For Innovation: Pharmaceuticals In Mexico
Jan 2010
This paper investigates the influence of human resource management on learning from internal and external sources of knowledge. Learning for innovation is a key ingredient of catching-up...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
Labour Market And Unemployment In Sudan
Jan 2011
This paper examines the structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of the analysis in this paper is that the authors explain several stylized facts on labour market using...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
The (Long) Run Out Of Unemployment Are Temporary Jobs The Shortest Way?
Apr 2008
A higher job creation is a common result by many theoretical approaches trying to model marginal labor market reforms. In the frame-work proposed by Berton and Garibaldi [2006], in particular, the...
Provided by Laboratorio Riccardo Revelli
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White Papers
Do You Think Your Risk Is Fair Paid? Evidence From Italian Labor Market
Feb 2009
Starting from Adam Smith's intuition, compensating wage differentials are one of the most widespread explanations to describe why agents should bear occupational risk of injury and death. For...
Provided by University of Calabria
-
White Papers
Mandatory Sick Pay Provision: A Labor Market Experiment
Mar 2010
Sick-pay is a common provision in labor contracts. It insures workers against a sudden loss of income due to unexpected absences and helps them smooth consumption. Therefore, many governments find...
Provided by Heidelberg University
-
White Papers
The Value Of A Statistical Injury: New Evidence From The Swiss Labor Market
Sep 2009
The authors' study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry skill-level of the job and capitalizing on...
Provided by University of Zurich
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White Papers
Labor Market Entry And Earnings Dynamics: Bayesian Inference Using Mixtures-Of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering
Nov 2010
This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market entrants over their life cycle. The authors identify four distinctly different types of transition patterns between...
Provided by Johannes Kepler University of Linz
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White Papers
The Limited Partnership In New York, 1822-1853: Partnerships Without Kinship
Oct 2008
In 1822, New York became the first common-law state to authorize the formation of limited partnerships, and over the ensuing decades, many other states followed. Most prior research has suggested...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Fooling Some Of The People All Of The Time: The Inefficient Performance And Persistence Of Commodity Trading Advisors
Oct 2008
Investors face significant barriers in evaluating the performance of hedge funds and Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs). The only available performance data comes from voluntary reporting to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Work Expectations, Realizations, And Depression In Older Workers
Oct 2008
The authors explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. The sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
A Depressing Scenario: Mortgage Debt Becomes Unemployment Insurance
Nov 2008
When asset values fall, the owners of collateralized loans are not in an enviable position. Nonetheless, they possess a kind of monopoly power over their borrowers that they do not possess when...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Dynamic Globalization And Its Potentially Alarming Prospects For Low-Wage Workers
Dec 2008
Will incomes of low and high skilled workers continue to diverge? Yes says the paper's dynamic, six-good, five-region - U.S., Europe, N.E. Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong), China, and India...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Heights And Human Welfare: Recent Developments And New Directions
Jan 2009
Since 1995 approximately 325 publications on stature have appeared in the social sciences, which is more than a four-fold increase in the rate of production relative to the period 1977-1994. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Top Wage Incomes In Japan, 1951-2005
Dec 2008
Using wage income tax statistics, the authors construct continuous series of upper wage income shares in Japan from 1951 to 2005 to document the evolution of top wage incomes and investigate their...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Going On The Long Race? - Employment Duration And (De)Regulation Of Experimental Stochastic Labor Markets -
Sep 2009
If the future market wage is uncertain, engaging in long-term employment is risky, with the risk depending on how regulated the labor market is. In the experiment long-term employment can result...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
-
White Papers
Chronically Dissatisfied: Work Characteristics, Personal Expectations And Job Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence In Young Italian Workers
Jan 2011
Job satisfaction is the degree to which people like their jobs. Companies are interested in job satisfaction of their employees, because it is positively correlated with certain desired outcomes...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Revisiting Labour And Gender Issues In Export Processing Zones: The Cases Of South Korea, Bangladesh And India
Oct 2008
The establishment of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) is a strategy for economic development that was introduced almost fifty years ago and is nowadays employed in a large number of countries. While...
Provided by Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
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White Papers
An Experimental Study Of Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class And Neighborhood In Chile
May 2008
The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender discrimination. In order to transcend the limitations of earlier works, an...
Provided by Inter-American Development Bank
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White Papers
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...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
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...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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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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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
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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
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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
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White Papers
An Experimental Study Of Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class And Neighborhood In Chile
May 2008
The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender discrimination. In order to transcend the limitations of earlier works, an...
Provided by Inter-American Development Bank
-
White Papers
Revisiting Labour And Gender Issues In Export Processing Zones: The Cases Of South Korea, Bangladesh And India
Oct 2008
The establishment of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) is a strategy for economic development that was introduced almost fifty years ago and is nowadays employed in a large number of countries. While...
Provided by Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
-
White Papers
Chronically Dissatisfied: Work Characteristics, Personal Expectations And Job Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence In Young Italian Workers
Jan 2011
Job satisfaction is the degree to which people like their jobs. Companies are interested in job satisfaction of their employees, because it is positively correlated with certain desired outcomes...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Going On The Long Race? - Employment Duration And (De)Regulation Of Experimental Stochastic Labor Markets -
Sep 2009
If the future market wage is uncertain, engaging in long-term employment is risky, with the risk depending on how regulated the labor market is. In the experiment long-term employment can result...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
-
White Papers
Top Wage Incomes In Japan, 1951-2005
Dec 2008
Using wage income tax statistics, the authors construct continuous series of upper wage income shares in Japan from 1951 to 2005 to document the evolution of top wage incomes and investigate their...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Heights And Human Welfare: Recent Developments And New Directions
Jan 2009
Since 1995 approximately 325 publications on stature have appeared in the social sciences, which is more than a four-fold increase in the rate of production relative to the period 1977-1994. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Dynamic Globalization And Its Potentially Alarming Prospects For Low-Wage Workers
Dec 2008
Will incomes of low and high skilled workers continue to diverge? Yes says the paper's dynamic, six-good, five-region - U.S., Europe, N.E. Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong), China, and India...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
A Depressing Scenario: Mortgage Debt Becomes Unemployment Insurance
Nov 2008
When asset values fall, the owners of collateralized loans are not in an enviable position. Nonetheless, they possess a kind of monopoly power over their borrowers that they do not possess when...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Work Expectations, Realizations, And Depression In Older Workers
Oct 2008
The authors explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. The sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Fooling Some Of The People All Of The Time: The Inefficient Performance And Persistence Of Commodity Trading Advisors
Oct 2008
Investors face significant barriers in evaluating the performance of hedge funds and Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs). The only available performance data comes from voluntary reporting to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
The Limited Partnership In New York, 1822-1853: Partnerships Without Kinship
Oct 2008
In 1822, New York became the first common-law state to authorize the formation of limited partnerships, and over the ensuing decades, many other states followed. Most prior research has suggested...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Labor Market Entry And Earnings Dynamics: Bayesian Inference Using Mixtures-Of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering
Nov 2010
This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market entrants over their life cycle. The authors identify four distinctly different types of transition patterns between...
Provided by Johannes Kepler University of Linz
-
White Papers
The Value Of A Statistical Injury: New Evidence From The Swiss Labor Market
Sep 2009
The authors' study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry skill-level of the job and capitalizing on...
Provided by University of Zurich
-
White Papers
Mandatory Sick Pay Provision: A Labor Market Experiment
Mar 2010
Sick-pay is a common provision in labor contracts. It insures workers against a sudden loss of income due to unexpected absences and helps them smooth consumption. Therefore, many governments find...
Provided by Heidelberg University
-
White Papers
Do You Think Your Risk Is Fair Paid? Evidence From Italian Labor Market
Feb 2009
Starting from Adam Smith's intuition, compensating wage differentials are one of the most widespread explanations to describe why agents should bear occupational risk of injury and death. For...
Provided by University of Calabria
-
White Papers
The (Long) Run Out Of Unemployment Are Temporary Jobs The Shortest Way?
Apr 2008
A higher job creation is a common result by many theoretical approaches trying to model marginal labor market reforms. In the frame-work proposed by Berton and Garibaldi [2006], in particular, the...
Provided by Laboratorio Riccardo Revelli
-
White Papers
Labour Market And Unemployment In Sudan
Jan 2011
This paper examines the structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of the analysis in this paper is that the authors explain several stylized facts on labour market using...
Provided by United Nations University
-
White Papers
Human Resource Management And Learning For Innovation: Pharmaceuticals In Mexico
Jan 2010
This paper investigates the influence of human resource management on learning from internal and external sources of knowledge. Learning for innovation is a key ingredient of catching-up...
Provided by United Nations University
-
White Papers
The Demographics Of Fund Turnover
Feb 2011
This paper documents various demographic factors which influence mutual fund turnover including managerial experience, location, education, and gender. On average, funds in financial centers trade...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Active Labor Market Policy By A Profit Maximizing Firm
Aug 2010
This paper investigates the effectiveness of an employment program exclusively run by and in a private sector firm, in order to find out whether a private program without cream-skimming can be...
Provided by Maastricht University
-
White Papers
Real Wage Inequality
Apr 2010
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the difference between the wage of college graduates and high school graduates over the past 30 years. The author shows that from 1980...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies
Sep 2008
The behavioral revolution in economics has demonstrated that human beings often have difficulty making wise choices. The most widely chronicled difficulties arise for decisions made under...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Wage Formation Between Newly Hired Workers And Employers: Survey Evidence
Sep 2008
Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Long-term Care Of The Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving By Spouses?
Sep 2008
Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? The authors develop two models in which the anticipated behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
An Evaluation Of The Forecast Of The Indicator Of The Labour Market Gap
Jul 2009
This evaluation study has been conducted within the framework of the Education and Labour Market Project (POA). The project is funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), the...
Provided by Maastricht University
-
White Papers
Human Resource Management Practices And Learning For Innovation In Developing Countries
Dec 2010
The use of the systems of innovation framework to study learning and innovation dates back to the mid-1980s (Freeman 2002; Lundvall et al., 2002). The most immediate roots trace back to three...
Provided by Maastricht University
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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...
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