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Liberty for More: Finance and Educational Opportunities
Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Banking reforms--that reduced interest rates--boosted college enrollment rates among able students from middle class families. We define "able" students as those with learning aptitude scores in the top two-thirds of the U.S. population. We define "middle class" as families in which both parents...
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Innovaatiotoiminta - Suomi globaalitaloudessa. Loppuraportti
Hyvärinen, Jari - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
have declined because of difficulties in telecommunication sector. Productivity analysis shows that high country-level R …&D expenditures as in Finland and the United States - have positive correlation with labour productivity in manufacturing. Moreover …, labour productivity in manufacturing in OECD countries relates positively with FDI and R&D expenditure growth. Also the level …
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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda
Agrawal, Ajay K.; Horton, John; Lacetera, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Online contract labor globalizes traditionally local labor markets, with platforms that enable employers, most of whom are in high-income countries, to more easily outsource tasks to contractors, primarily located in low-income countries. This market is growing rapidly; we provide descriptive...
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Informational Mobility and Productivity - Finnish Evidence
Maliranta, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2004
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Costly Labor Adjustment: Effects of China's Employment Regulations
Cooper, Russell; Gong, Guan; Yan, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new …
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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation: A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program
Ravallion, Martin; Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress: involuntary unemployment and the expected welfare losses from work requirements. The paper generalizes past evaluation theory and methods to incorporate both features, and...
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Skill Gaps, Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatches: Evidence for the US
Cappelli, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Concerns that there are problems with the supply of skills, especially education-related skills, in the US labor force have exploded in recent years with a series of reports from employer-associated organizations but also from independent and even government sources making similar claims. These...
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Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives
Freeman, Richard B.; Björklund, Anders - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper examines the evolution of economic inequality in Sweden before, during and after the major macro-economic recession in the early 1990s. Earnings and income inequality increased after the downturn, but government safety net programs buttressed disposable income for those with low...
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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; Smith, Jeffrey Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two states. Our substantive contributions center on impacts estimated non-experimentally using administrative data. These impacts compare WIA participants who do and do not receive...
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The Impact of Minimum Age of Employment Regulation on Child Labor and Schooling: Evidence from UNICEF MICS Countries
Edmonds, Eric; Shrestha, Maheshwor - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Promoting minimum age of employment regulation has been a centerpiece in child labor policy for the last 15 years. If enforced, minimum age regulation would change the age profile of paid child employment. Using micro-data from 59 mostly low-income countries, we observe that age can explain less...
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