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An Evaluation of the Swedish Active Labor Market Policy : New and Received Wisdom
Forslund, Anders - 1994
About 3% of GNP is spent on government labor market programs in Sweden, compared to 2% in Germany and less than 0.5% in … the U.S. In Sweden these programs include extensive job training, public sector relief work, recruitment subsidies, youth … training programs have small effects on wages and re-employment in Sweden, but precise inferences are difficult because of …
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Technology and Labor Regulations
Alesina, Alberto - 2006
Many low skilled jobs have been substituted away for machines in Europe, or eliminated, much more so than in the US …, while technological progress at the "top", i.e. at the high-tech sector, is faster in the US than in Europe. This paper … suggests that the main difference between Europe and the US in this respect is their different labor market policies. European …
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Economic Reforms and Labor Markets : Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile
Edwards, Sebastian - 2000
This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We concentrate on the reform to job security, on the decentralization of the wage bargaining process, and on the reduction in payroll taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent...
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Labor Rationing
Breza, Emily; Kaur, Supreet; Shamdasani, Yogita - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper measures excess labor supply in equilibrium. We examine hiring shocks--which employ 24% of the labor force in external month-long jobs--in Indian local labor markets. In peak months, wages increase instantaneously and local aggregate employment declines. In lean months, consistent...
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"Golden Ages" : A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States
Fang, Hanming; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the labor markets in China and the United States, the two largest economies in the world, by examining the evolution of their cross-sectional age-earnings profiles during the past thirty years. We find that, first, the peak age in the cross-sectional age-earnings profiles, which we...
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The Effectiveness of Equal Employment Law and Affirmative Action Regulation
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1985
This paper reviews some recent empirical analyses of the impact of affirmative action and anti-discrimination law on employment and productivity.The major findings are that:1)Affirmative action has some success in improving employment opportunities for minorities and females, particularly for...
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Employment and Occupational Advance Under Affirmative Action
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984
Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to help move them up the job ladder, and it is this second goal that is perhaps the more controversial. Studies of Affirmative Action during thel ate 1960's and early 1910's found it...
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Labor Markets and Evaluations of Vocational Training Programs in the Public High Schools - Toward a Framework for Analysis
Gustman, Alan L. - 1980
A simplified model is constructed to analyze the role played by vocational training programs In high schools. The model assumes that there are two kinds of educational programs in high schools, vocational and general. It also assumes that there are two types of jobs for high school graduates....
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Old Europe ages : Reforms and Reform Backlashes
Boersch-Supan, Axel H. - 2010
The extent of the demographic changes in Europe is dramatic and will deeply affect future labor, financial and goods … weaken reform policies? Can Old Europe maintain its standard of living even if behavioral reactions offset some of the …
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Labor Market Institutions Around the World
Freeman, Richard B. - 2007
The paper documents the large cross-country differences in labor institutions that make them a candidate explanatory factor for the divergent economic performance of countries and reviews what economists have learned about the effects of these institutions on economic outcomes. It identifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465411