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trends in wellbeing.  If the rise in wages that followed the Black Death enticed female servants to delay marriage, it …
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Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a review of the most pertinent theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature on worksharing. In addition, we also provide new empirical evidence on this issue, by a cross...
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We analyze how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution … trade integration increases productivity. Moreover, we show that both trade in intermediate inputs and trade in value added … in value added on the labor share of income. Further, we show that the effects on productivity and labor share are …
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cannot be explained by either the observed or unobserved skills of the workforce or the characteristics of the workplace. To … over time so such controls are possible. Changes in wages are shown to respond to changes both to profits per employee and …-size relationship can be explained by the skills of the workers. They can be shown to be consistent with some forms of non …
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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895474
Establishment closures have lasting negative consequences for the workers they displace from their jobs. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience after job displacement. Developing new measures of occupational skill redundancy and skill...
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with relevant skills and capabilities. In light of our results, it is not clear that the higher education systems in these …
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productivity or an intrusion of politics into the workplace. In spite of these strong opinions, the effects of unions in Latin … impact of unions on private-sector firm performance, agricultural productivity, and educational outcomes in public school …
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productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
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