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Health and Work at Older Ages : Using Mortality to Assess the Capacity to Work across Countries
Milligan, Kevin S. - 2012
Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of...
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Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets
Kaur, Supreet - 2014
This paper tests for downward nominal wage rigidity by examining transitory shifts in labor demand, generated by rainfall shocks, in 600 Indian districts from 1956-2009. Nominal wages rise in response to positive shocks but do not fall during droughts. In addition, transitory positive shocks...
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Cheap Thrills : the Price of Leisure and the Global Decline in Work Hours
Kopytov, Alexandr - 2020
The real price of recreation goods and services has fallen dramatically over the last century. At the same time, hours per worker have also been on a steady decline. As recreation goods make leisure time more enjoyable, we investigate if the fall in their price has contributed to the decline in...
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Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change : International Evidence
Berman, Eli - 1997
Demand for less skilled workers decreased dramatically in the US and in other developed countries over the past two decades. We argue that pervasive skill-biased technological change rather than increased trade with the developing world is the principal culprit. The pervasiveness of this...
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Exploitation of Labor? Classical Monopsony Power and Labor's Share
Brooks, Wyatt J. - 2019
How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We examine this in the context of China and India - two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by...
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Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities : Empirical Evidence from India
Hasan, Rana - 2003
Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time....
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Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India : Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch
Robles, Verónica C. Frisancho - 2012
Affirmative action policies in higher education are used in many countries to try to socially advance historically disadvantaged minorities. Although the underlying social objectives of these policies are rarely criticized, there is intense debate over the actual impact of such preferences in...
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Aging and the Growth of Long-Term Care
Lakdawalla, Darius - 1999
This paper analyzes how markets for old-age care respond to the aging of populations. We consider how the biological … demand for and supply of care. We argue that aging many times may lower the demand for market care by increasing the supply … of family-provided care, which substitutes for market care. By providing healthy spouses, aging may increase the supply …
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The Dynamics of an Aging Population : The Case of Four OECD Countries
Auerbach, Alan J. - 1989
Demographic changes, such as those anticipated in most OECD countries, have many economics effects that impinge on a country's fiscal viability. Evaluation of the effects of associated changes in capital-labor ratios and the welfare and behavior of different generations requires the use of a...
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Has Social Security Influenced Family Formation and Fertility in OECD Countries? An Economic and Econometric Analysis
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2007
There is growing concern about a decline in the total fertility rate worldwide, but nowhere is the concern greater than in OECD countries, some of which already face the prospect of population decline as well. While the trend is largely the result of structural economic and social changes, our...
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