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 …

by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months …

the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …

global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are … labor by a factor of four, implying large spatial inefficiency. Short-term effects on households were modest. Effects on …