Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,544
Cover Image
International Labor Economics
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2002
I argue for increased reliance on non-U.S. data and policy evaluations to understand basic labor- market parameters and to predict the effects of changes in U.S. labor-market policies. Foreign experiences generate exogenous shocks to labor costs that create unusual opportunities to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469958
Cover Image
Data Difficulties in Labor Economics
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1988
This essay sets out a framework for evaluating empirical work in terms of the ability of the data to provide adequate parameter estimates and hypothesis tests about the true underlying structure. Problems of aggregation, representativeness and structural change are discussed in detail. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476449
Cover Image
Employment and Occupational Advance Under Affirmative Action
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984
Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action … was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477827
Cover Image
Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467955
Cover Image
Law and Employment : Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
Heckman, James - 2003
This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468565
Cover Image
Unions in a Frictional Labor Market
Krusell, Per - 2012
A labor market with search and matching frictions, where wage setting is controlled by a monopoly union that follows a norm of wage solidarity, is found vulnerable to substantial distortions associated with holdup. With full commitment to future wages, the union achieves efficient hiring in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460442
Cover Image
Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
Aghion, Philippe - 2008
Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate this question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464321
Cover Image
Trade Policy, Income, and Employment
Baldwin, Robert E. - 1984
Disappointing recent growth rates, the emergence of structurally unfavorable income and employment conditions, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477773
Cover Image
Why Do Sectoral Employment Programs Work? Lessons from WorkAdvance
Katz, Lawrence F. - 2020
-wage jobs in higher-earning industries and occupations not just by raising employment. Training in transferable and certifiable … skills (likely under-provided from poaching concerns) and reductions of employment barriers to high-wage sectors for non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482466
Cover Image
Working under different rules
Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000349253