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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471121
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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 Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2004
structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs … typically held by less skilled workers. Firms in Europe have more incentives to invest in less skilled workers, because minimum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467955
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Law and Employment : Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
Heckman, James - 2003
of regulation in Latin America and OECD Europe and discusses the origin of regulation. It shows the fragility of time … series data analyses of the sort widely used to analyze the impact of regulation in OECD Europe and the benefits of using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468565
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Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets : Problems and Solutions
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2011
Blacks in the United States are poorer than whites and have much lower employment rates. "Place-based" policies seek to improve the labor markets in which blacks - especially low-income urban blacks - tend to reside. We first review the literature on spatial mismatch, which provides much of the...
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Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy
Davis, Donald R. - 1996
the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been …
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The Role of Shocks and Institutions in the Rise of European Unemployment : The Aggregate Evidence
Blanchard, Olivier - 1999
Two key facts about European unemployment must be explained: the rise in unemployment since the 1960s, and the heterogeneity of individual country experiences. While adverse shocks can potentially explain much of the rise in unemployment, there is insufficient heterogeneity in these shocks to...
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Trade Policy, Income, and Employment
Baldwin, Robert E. - 1984
Disappointing recent growth rates, the emergence of structurally unfavorable income and employment conditions, and important institutional changes in the international trading environment have caused policy officials in the advanced industrial nations to reconsider the proper mix of reactive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477773
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Why Do Sectoral Employment Programs Work? Lessons from WorkAdvance
Katz, Lawrence F. - 2020
This paper examines the evidence from randomized evaluations of sector-focused training programs that target low-wage workers and combine upfront screening, occupational and soft skills training, and wraparound services. The programs generate substantial and persistent earnings gains (11 to 40...
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