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Female Labor Supply : Why is the US Falling Behind?
Blau, Francine D. - 2013
other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …
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A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University‐Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : Does Policy Matter?
Clarke, Andrew James - 2018
influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...
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Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle
Ebell, Monique - 2006
We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage bargaining. Product market competition affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782768
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Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville - 2017
marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …
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'Can't Get Enough' : Prejudice, Contact Jobs and the Racial Wage Gap in the US
Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …
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Hours Worked in Europe and the US : New Data, New Answers
Bick, Alexander - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe …
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What Explains Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Men in the United States?
Blau, David M.; Goodstein, Ryan - 2021
After nearly a full century of decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We use a time series of cross sections from 1962 to 2005 to model the LFPR of men aged 55-69, with the aim of...
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Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?
Usui, Emiko - 2016
We investigate how Japanese men aged 60-74 adjust their workforce attachment after beginning to receive a public pension. Men who were employees at age 54 gradually move to part-time work or retire after beginning to receive pension benefits; those who continue working are more likely to be...
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