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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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Maxwell extablishes the link between skills and low-skilled jobs and reveals the state of he labor market facing low-skilled workers.
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We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4 percent during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5 percent by 2000. Our analysis...
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We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers … effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment outcome under foreign ownership results from a substantial …
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.16 and 0.34, respectively), and controlling for employment size further reduces them (to 0.07 and 0.28). We also exploit the …
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Siegel provides evidence that technology adoption is associated with downsizing, skill upgrading, greater employee … technology usage and labor composition which enable him to link the magnitude of labor market outcomes for six classes of workers …
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women who serve in such disproportionate numbers. This paper investigates the civilian employment experiences of female … evaluate the employment experiences of female veterans. Second, data from an audit study of civilian hiring practices provides … force attachment. Only white women show slightly lower rates of employment (among those in the labor force), while black …
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This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The longitudinal dimension of the data is used to measure and control for...
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