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Evidence Scan of Work Experience Programs.

Sattar, Samina - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

This report presents evidence on the effectiveness of interventions that include work experience as a strategy to improve employment outcomes for people with barriers to employment. The report reviews 26 years of rigorous research gathering information from 27 evaluations. The author...

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Restrictive immigration policy in Germany: pains and gains foregone?

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Geis, Wido; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2008

employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor …

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Applications and interviews: A structural analysis of two-sided simultaneous search

Wolthoff, Ronald P. - 2011

A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … approximately half of the 4.7% loss. There is a potential role for activating labor market policies, because I show that for the …

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Export Take-Offs and Acceleration: Unpacking Cross-Sector Linkages in the Evolution of Comparative Advantage

Bahar, Dany; Rosenow, Samuel; Stein, Ernesto; Wagner, … - 2018

labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …

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How Should Consumption Be Taxed?

Bastani, Spencer; Koehne, Sebastian - 2022

We review the theoretical justification of consumption taxes in advanced economies, providing a systematic overview of the vast public finance literature exploring how goods and services should be taxed. Our discussion focuses on both the determinants of the optimal level of consumption taxation...

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Climate Changes Affect Human Capital

Caruso, Germán; de Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023

Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...

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Religion and Growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

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Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from US Commuting Zones

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino; … - 2023

We study the effect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on employment across US commuting zones over the period 2000-2020. A simple model shows that AI can automate jobs or complement workers, and illustrates how to estimate its effect by exploiting variation in a novel measure of local exposure to...

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Seniority, External Labor Markets, and Faculty Pay

Brown, Byron W.; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995

We estimate the returns to seniority (the wage-tenure profile) for university faculty, and the degree to which these returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on faculty at a Big Ten university (ours), we estimate...

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The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Tight Labor Markets

Houseman, Susan N.; Kalleberg, Arne L.; Erickcek, George A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001

tight labor markets of the 1990s. Based on case study evidence from the hospital and auto supply industries, we evaluate …

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