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employment and the big fall in aggregate hours needs further research. Taxation has played a role but results are mixed. …
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Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The...
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predictions about long-run trends in aggregate market hours of work and about employment shifts across economic sectors, driven by … aggregate market hours, the complete marketization of home production in agriculture and manufacturing, and the employment shift …
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We study long-run trends in aggregate market hours of work and shifts across economic sectors within the context of balanced aggregate growth. We show that a model of many goods and uneven TFP growth in market and home production can rationalize the observed falling or U-shaped aggregate hours...
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This paper considers a real business cycle model with search frictions in the labor market and labor supply which is elastic along the extensive (participation) margin. Previous authors have found that such models generate counterfactually procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped...
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the ease with which individuals can move between employment, unemployment and inactivity over time. The results suggest …” explanatory factors, including part time and temporary employment, unemployment and structure indicators. The results provide a …
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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...
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skills into occupations prevents credible identification of polarization’s effect on wages. I solve the selection … of employment in middle-skill production and clerical occupations - so-called job polarization. I study whether job …-bias problem by studying the changes in returns to occupation-specific skills instead of the changes in occupational wages using …
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This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working …
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associated with remaining disabled post-onset. We show that employment rates fall with disability onset, and continue to fall the …
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