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 …

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 …

The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between …

; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …

We examine the efficiency properties of labor taxation. A spatial model of an economy is introduced whose key feature … is a new approach to restricted labor mobility. We characterize the efficient allocation of labor and properties of a … decentralized equilibrium. An efficient allocation of labor can be compatible with marginal productivity differentials stemming from …

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

In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in …

-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 …