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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 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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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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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth
Dew-Becker, Ian - 2008
Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth … growth within Europe. We document this tradeoff in the raw data, in regressions that control for the two-way causation …
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Determinants of Labor Demand in Colombia : 1976-1996
Cardenas, Mauricio - 2003
Colombia's unemployment rate rose to 20% during the late 1990s from less than 8% in 1994. This paper argues that this has been the result of high non-wage labor costs embodied in the legislation. The estimated own-wage labor demand elasticity is around 0.5, which implies that a reduction in...
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Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998
Montenegro, Claudio - 2003
Economists have examined the impact of labor market regulations on the level of employment. However, there are many reasons to suspect that the impact of regulations differs across types of workers. In this paper we take advantage of the unusual large variance in labor policy in Chile to exa...
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Flexibility and Job Creation : Lessons for Germany
Heckman, James J. - 2002
This paper examines the performance of the German economy and the role of the regulation and welfare state policies in affecting its performance. While the German economy is still strong, incentives in place are likely to impair future German competitiveness and productivity
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469516