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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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White Papers
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
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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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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White Papers
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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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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
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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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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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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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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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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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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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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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
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
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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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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White Papers
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
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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White Papers
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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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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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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
-
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
-
White Papers
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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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