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We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years

Guinnane, Timothy - 2021

Economists have reported econometric results that rely on estimates of the population of every country in the world for … the past two thousand or more years. The underlying source is usually McEvedy and Jones’ Atlas of World Population History … Jones cannot take advantage of improved estimates reported since 1978. McEvedy and Jones often infer population sizes from …

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How Does For-Profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Labor Market Outcomes?

Armona, Luis - 2019

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...

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How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2020

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in Norway, and comprehensive data on recruiters,...

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Macroeconomic Shocks and Racial Labour Market Differences in the U.S

De, Kuhelika - 2020

employment-population ratio among black Americans falls close to twice as much as that among white Americans, primarily due to an …

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Is There a Gender Wage Gap in Online Labor Markets? Evidence from Over 250,000 Projects and 2.5 Million Wage Bill Proposals

Gomez-Herrera, Estrella - 2019

We explore whether there is a gender wage gap in one of the largest EU online labor markets, PeoplePerHour. Our unique dataset consists of 257,111 digitally tradeable tasks of 55,824 hiring employers from 188 countries and 65,010 workers from 173 countries that made more than 2.5 million wage...

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Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth - An International Comparison

Rottmann, Horst; Flaig, Gebhard - 2021

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD...

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Labour Market Rigidities, Financial Integration and International Risk Sharing in the OECD

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Foster-McGregor, Neil; Scharler, Johann - 2021

Economic theory predicts that consumption growth rates should be highly correlated across countries. Empirical evidence overwhelmingly rejects this prediction. We examine whether increased financial integration and labour market rigidities can help explain this apparent contradiction between...

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