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Due to population aging, GDP growth per capita and GDP growth per working-age adult have become quite different among many advanced economies over the last several decades. Countries whose GDP growth per capita performance has been lackluster, like Japan, have done surprisingly well in terms of...
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. Social Security, Retirement, and Employment of the Young in Denmark 99 Paul Bingley …, Nabanita Datta Gupta, and Peder J. Pedersen 4. Labor Force Participation by the Elderly and Employment of the Young … Retirement and Employment of the Young in Germany 147 Axel Borsch-Supan and Reinhold …
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Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
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employment or relocate elsewhere. Although the higher minimum wage reduced employment for unskilled workers, anti …, but those losses were offset by employment gains at surviving plants. The message is a mixed one: activism significantly …
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-level data on income, employment, unemployment, and the area's racial composition from the published volumes of the federal … blacks' income and employment that were economically significant and that may have been larger in the long run (1960 …
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In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing … competitiveness. The expanded domestic output leads to more employment at home (output effect). The net effect of FDI on domestic … employment is a combination of substitution and output effects. For Taiwan, the net effect is positive in most cases but it …
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We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the labor market effects of the Mariel Boatlift, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group of cities that best matches Miami's labor market trends pre-Boatlift and providing more...
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