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Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
Putterman, Louis; Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
state history and the timing of transition to agriculture have much better predictive power for current GDP when one looks … at the ancestors of the people who currently live in a country than when one considers the history on that country …'s ancestors. An even better predictor of current inequality in a country is the variance of early development history of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778374
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Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?
Kvasnicka, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our results show that workers who enter temporary help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085416
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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?
Autor, David; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014920
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The Evolution of the Demand for Temporary Help Supply Employment in the United States
Estevão, Marcello de Moura Estevão Filho; Lach, Saul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported an extraordinary increase in temporary help supply (THS) employment during the late 1980s and the 1990s. However, little is known about the venues where these THS employees actually work. Our estimates indicate that the proportion of THS employees in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718203
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Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective
Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
In this paper we investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire equilibrium may be inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the imposition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718851
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Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First'
Autor, David; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
A disproportionate share of low-skilled U.S. workers is employed by temporary-help firms. These firms offer rapid entry into paid employment, but temporary-help jobs are typically brief, and it is unknown whether they foster longer-term employment. We exploit a unique aspect of the city of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718872
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Helping Workers Online and Offline: Innovations in Union and Worker Organization Using the Internet
Freeman, Richard B.; Rehavi, M. Marit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This study examines two innovative efforts to provide union services to workers with the aid of low cost Internet communication: the AFL-CIO's Working America, a "community affiliate" that enrolled 2 million workers from 2004 to 2007 by canvassing them at their homes and over the Internet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830169
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Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000
Boeheim, Rene; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Whereas there is widespread belief that workers in temporary help services (THS) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy, there is little evidence on whether that is driven by the sector per se or by the workers'...
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Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present
Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
I discuss the health transition in the United States, bringing new data to bear on health indicators, and investigating the changing relationship between health, income, and the environment. I argue that scientific advances played an outsize role and that health improvements were largest among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950664
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Understanding and Improving the Social Context of Well-Being
Helliwell, John F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The paper first attempts to demonstrate the fundamental importance of the social context. The related evidence is drawn from recent theoretical and empirical advances in the study of subjective well-being. Treating people's self-assessments of the quality of their lives as valid measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950986