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The economics of labor market intermediation : an analytic framework

Autor, David H. (contributor) - 2008

Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...

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Union decline in Britain

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2008

This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sector workplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline has occurred across all types of workplace. Although the union wage premium persists it is quite small in 2004. Negative union effects on...

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'Living wage', class conflict and ethnic strife

Dasgupta, Indraneel (contributor) - 2008

We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where two...

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Impact of paternal temporary absence on children left behind

Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - 2009

Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence … investment ; child labor ; Vietnam ; VLSS …

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Inequality in Vietnamese urban-rural living standards, 1993 - 2006

Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - 2010

Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban …-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before …-rural inequality ; Vietnam ; unconditional quantile regression ; Oaxaca decomposition …

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Drawn into violence : evidence on "what makes a criminal" from the Vietnam draft lotteries

Lindo, Jason M.; Stoecker, Charles - 2010

Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military … used to draft servicemen. -- crime ; violence ; military ; two-sample IV ; Vietnam War …

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Gender patterns in Vietnam's child mortality

Pham, Thong Le; Kooreman, Peter; Koning, Ruud Hans; … - 2011

We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region …

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Does the military train men to be violent criminals? : new evidence from Australia's conscription lotteries

Siminski, Peter; Ville, Simon P.; Paull, Alexander - 2013

prepares people for violent warfare, are hypothesized to link service to violent crime. Using Australia's Vietnam …

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Who suffers the penalty? : a panel data analysis of earnings gaps in Vietnam

Nguyen Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe J.; Roubaud, François - 2013

structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave …, we draw conclusions highlighting the Vietnam's labour market specificity. -- informal employment ; earnings gap … ; transition matrix ; panel data ; Vietnam …

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Monetary transfers from children and the labour supply of elderly parents : evidence from Vietnam

Trong Ha Nguyen; Liu, Amy Y. C.; Booth, Alison L. - 2012

In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether monetary transfers from children help to reduce elderly parents' need to work. Taking the possible...

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