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Heterogeneous labor demand: sectoral elasticity and trade effects in the U.S., Germany and Sweden.
Judzik, Dario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper analyzes labor demand at the sector level in the U.S., Germany and Sweden in two ways: by providing new computations of the sector elasticity of labor demand, and by evaluating the employment effects of trade in manufactures, services, agriculture and fuel. The elasticity is computed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204408
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Market Mechanism and Skill Premiums in the UK 1972-2002
Peng, Fei; Kang, Lili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the effect of shifts in the relative supply and demand of skills on the skill premiums and wage inequality in the British labour market 1972-2002. We test the Katz and Murphy (1992) hypothesis that the changes of skill premiums can be explained by their relative supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110002
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Estabilidad de la demanda de trabajo y efecto del salario minimo sobre el Empleo: El caso Chileno
Miranda Pinto, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper I find evidence of a structural change in the labor demand in Chile in 2001. The break is mainly characterized by an increase in the employment-GDP elasticity. Additionally, separating labor demand by sectors, I find evidence of a stronger negative impact of the minimum wages on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111619
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Estabilidad de la demanda de trabajo y efecto del salario minimo sobre el Empleo: El caso Chileno
Miranda, Jorge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
evidence. In this paper I attempt to answer both questions using an alternative methodology for the estimation of multiple … breaks (Bai and Perron, 2003) in the presence of cointegration relationships (Kejriwal, 2008). The results show evidence of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114184
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The Relationship Among African American Male Earnings, Employment, Incarceration and Immigration: A Time Series Approach
Stevans, Lonnie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The advent of rising immigration has spurred research into a number of important issues insofar as the indigenous labor market is concerned. Some of these issues regarding the nature of the effect on native workers have been studied extensively. Others, like the interrelationships among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260046
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Unemployment among educated youth: implications for India’s demographic dividend
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Researchers claim that India is poised for reaping demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income … on the contribution of youth to national product. India at present suffers from remarkably high educated unemployment and … formation and unemployment among youth in India, focusing specially on educated unemployment. We find that current skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259645
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Declining Labour Use in Agriculture : A Case of Rice Cultivation in Andhra Pradesh
Duvvuru, Narasimha Reddy; Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present paper examines the changing nature of labour use in rice cultivation in Andhra Pradesh. The study observed that there is a fast decline in labour use in respect of rice cultivation in Andhra Pradesh. All three forms of labour (family, casual and attached) have followed the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111161
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Wages and Employment in the Liberalised Regime: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Sector
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
countries. The structural adjustment programme in India tried to ensure both through higher growth targets, and manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260234
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Empleo, pequeñas empresas locales y estrategias de desarrollo endogeno. Experiencias en Argentina
Burachik, Gustavo; Gorenstein, Silvia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
The ‘90s signaled a new phase in the restructuring process of the argentine economy initiated in the mid ‘70s. A broad range of deep changes in the structural conditions in which firms and institutions operate were introduced. This process have had clear impacts on the viability and/or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835435
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Dual Poverty Trap: Intra- and Intergenerational Linkages in Frictional Labor Markets
Horii, Ryo; Sasaki, Masaru - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper constructs an overlapping generations model with a frictional labor market to explain persistent low education in developing countries. When parents are uneducated, their children often face difficulties in finishing school and therefore are likely to remain uneducated. Moreover, if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835472