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Chapter 43 Labor markets in developing countries
Behrman, Jere R. - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 3, part B, (pp. 2859-2939). 1999
This chapter covers selected topics for the 80% of the world's labor force that works in the developing countries. These topics are ones that have: (1) received relatively great attention in developing countries compared to developed economies (i.e., family enterprises, missing labor markets,...
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The Labor Market Impact of High-Skill Immigration
Borjas, George - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
The rapid growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in American universities has transformed the higher education system, particularly at the graduate level. Many of these newly minted doctorates remain in the United States after receiving their doctoral degrees, so that the foreign...
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The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police
McCrary, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Arguably the most aggressive affirmative action program ever implemented in the United States was a series of court-ordered racial hiring quotas imposed on municipal police departments. My best estimate of the effect of court-ordered affirmative action on workforce composition is a 14 percentage...
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Examining the Effect of Industry Trends and Structure on Welfare Caseloads
Bartik, Timothy J.; Eberts, Randall W. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1999
Previous studies of the macro-economic determinants of welfare caseloads have had difficulty in explaining changes in welfare caseloads during the last decade or so using the simple macroeconomic measure of unemployment. Because welfare recipients will typically get entry- level jobs, employment...
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Marriage, bereavement and mortality: The role of health care utilization
Simeonova, Emilia - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 33-50
There is ample evidence that bereavement is associated with heightened mortality. Regardless of whether this strong association is truly causal, little is known about the factors contributing to it. This study begins to unpack the black box of the bereavement–mortality puzzle by investigating...
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Heterogeneity in Disease Resistance and the Impact of Antibiotics in the US
Cook, C. Justin; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We hypothesize that the impact of antibiotics is moderated by a population's inherent (genetic) resistance to infectious disease. Using the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937, we show that US states that are more genetically susceptible to infectious disease saw larger declines in their...
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Fiscal Implications of Ageing: Projections of Age-Related Spending
Dang, Thai-Thanh; Antolín, Pablo; Oxley, Howard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001
demographic developments for all countries. Recent reforms to pension systems have partly offset the impact on spending of an …
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How Should Norway Respond to Ageing?
Antolín, Pablo; Suyker, Wim - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001
, pension outlays are currently relatively low and substantial financial assets have been accumulated in the Government … Petroleum Fund. However, without reforms, due to the maturing of the pension system, ageing will lead to one of the biggest … increases in pension spending as a share of GDP in OECD countries over the next 50 years. This paper thus, after exploring the …
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How Will Ageing Affect Finland?
Antolín, Pablo; Oxley, Howard; Suyker, Wim - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001
will have on public finances: the cost of the pension system will increase by a third; health care spending and the cost of …
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Coping with Population Ageing in the Netherlands
Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002
OECD countries to meet these pressures because it has a large, funded occupational pension system in place. This advantage …
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