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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland

Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010

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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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …

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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment

Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low …

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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war

Utar, Hâle - 2022

-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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Signals from on high and the power of growth mindset: a natural field experiment in attracting minorities to high-profile positions

Flory, Jeffrey A.; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Rott, Christina; … - 2021

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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Sectoral wage gaps and gender in rural India

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021

local non-farm employment opportunities interacting with barriers to labor mobility for women but not men. …

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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...

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Labour mobility with vocational skill: Australian demand and pacific supply

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2021

How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which...

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Gender differences in interpersonal and intrapersonal competitive behavior

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017

Gender differences in competitive behavior have been well documented by economists and other social scientists; however, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we...

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Testing for repugnance in economic transactions : evidence from guest work in the Gulf

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest work. This may be because guest work is viewed as a repugnant transaction – one whose harmful side-effects might cause third parties...

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