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Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous …, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the sources of growth in the potential future labor force are described in this … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for …
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took place and trace back the development of wage labor within agriculture, industry and service sector. In particular, the …-industrial time the social organization of work occurred in various forms and that wage labor was rather a rare phenomenon in the … beginning of the 19th century. Hence, a widespread and functioning labor market cannot be identified at that time. Rudimentary …
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The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between …
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Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...
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Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low …
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In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in …
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-plant heterogeneity points to a local labor supply channel where particularly plants utilizing low-wage, female, blue-collar workers are … impacted. Consistent with a blue-collar labor supply shock, the results show a positive impact on average blue-collar wages and …
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We conduct a large-scale natural field experiment with a Fortune 500 company to test several approaches to attract minorities to high-profile positions. 5,000 prospective applicants were randomized into treatments varying a portion of recruiting materials. We find that self-selection at two...
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local non-farm employment opportunities interacting with barriers to labor mobility for women but not men. …
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labor effort, schooling allocations, income, consumption, agricultural investments, and crop output. Women and children work …
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