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Occupational Labor Shortages: Concepts, Causes, Consequences, and Cures

Barnow, Burt S.; Trutko, John; Piatak, Jaclyn Schede - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Barnow, Trutko, and Piatak focus on whether persistent occupation-specific labor shortages might lead to inefficiencies in the U.S. economy. They describe why shortages arise, the difficulty in ascertaining that a shortage is present, and how to assess strategies to alleviate the shortage.

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Human Resource Economics and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Vernon M. Briggs Jr.

Whalen, Charles J. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

students and colleagues, explore and extend his work on employment, education and training, immigration, and local labor …

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The International Law of Economic Migration: Toward the Fourth Freedom

Trachtman, Joel P. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Trachtman examines the welfare economics, political economy, and legal experience in international economic migrationm, and on the basis of his analysis, suggests the structure of a multilateral framework agreement on internatinoal economic migration.

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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007

unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …

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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …

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Wages, Layoffs, and Privatization: Evidence from Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitov, Vladimir - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 … percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected …

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The Distributional Effects of Local Labor Demand and Industrial Mix: Estimates Using Individual Panel Data

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukranian Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Stages of Occupational Regulation: Analysis of Case Studies

Kleiner, Morris M. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Kleiner examines occupations that are at various stages of regulation to determine to what extent regulation has influenced the individuals in the occupations, consumers, and related occupational practitioners.

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Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Demand Policies Help?

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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