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A Comparative Analysis of East and West German Labor Markets : Before and After Unification

Krueger, Alan B. - 1992

In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed … Germany, individual variation in wage growth is similar to typical western levels. The wage structure of former East Germans …

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Observations and Conjectures on the U.S. Employment Miracle

Krueger, Alan B. - 1997

This paper has three goals; first, to place U.S. job growth in international perspective by exploring cross-country differences in employment and population growth. This section finds that the U.S. has managed to absorb added workers -- especially female workers -- into employment at a greater...

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An Evaluation of the Swedish Active Labor Market Policy : New and Received Wisdom

Forslund, Anders - 1994

About 3% of GNP is spent on government labor market programs in Sweden, compared to 2% in Germany and less than 0.5% in …

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A Statistical Analysis of Crime Against Foreigners in Unified Germany

Krueger, Alan B. - 1996

Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the …

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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market

Kleiner, Morris M. - 2009

This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...

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The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing

Kleiner, Morris M. - 2008

This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U.S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was required to hold an occupational license from a...

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Computing Inequality : Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?

Autor, David H. - 1997

This paper examines the effect of technological change and other factors on the relative demand for workers with different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is used to interpret changes in the relative quantities,...

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Labor Market Effects of School Quality : Theory and Evidence

Card, David - 1996

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent labor market success. We begin with a simple theoretical model that describes the determination of schooling and earnings with varying school quality. A key insight of the model...

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The Effect of the Minimum Wage When It Really Bites : A Reexamination of the Evidence from Puerto Rico

Krueger, Alan B. - 1994

This paper reinvestigates the evidence on the impact of the minimum wage on employment in Puerto Rico. The strongest evidence that the minimum wage had a negative effect on employment comes from an aggregate time series analysis. The weakest evidence comes from cross-industry analyses. The main...

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An Evaluation of Recent Evidence on the Employment Effects of Minimum and Subminimum Wages

Card, David - 1993

We re-examine recent cross-state evidence on the employment effect of the minimum wage. A re-evaluation of the data used in Neumark and Wascher's (1992) study of the minimum wage provides no support for their conclusion that the minimum wage has an adverse effect on teenage employment. Neumark...

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