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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less regulated labour and product markets in the US. Based on the Comparative German American Structural Database and the International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of...

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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001

Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...

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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia

Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher...

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The role of sectoral growth patterns in labor market development

Arias-Vazquez, Francisco Javier; Lee, Jean Nahrae; … - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...

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Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

Kuka, Elira - 2018

This paper studies the human capital responses to a large shock in the returns to education for undocumented youth. We obtain variation in the benefits of schooling from the enactment of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy in 2012, which provides work authorization and...

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Smart Cities : Quality of Life, Productivity, and the Growth Effects of Human Capital

Shapiro, Jesse M. - 2005

From 1940 to 1990, a 10 percent increase in a metropolitan area's concentration of college-educated residents was associated with a .8 percent increase in subsequent employment growth. Instrumental variables estimates support a causal relationship between college graduates and employment growth,...

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Who Values Human Capitalists' Human Capital? The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians

Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Polyakova, Maria; Rinz, Kevin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

physicians' earnings and estimate the influence of healthcare policies on these earnings, physicians' labor supply, and … survey responses, we find that physicians' annual earnings average $350,000 and comprise 8.6% of national healthcare spending …. The age-earnings profile is steep; business income comprises one-quarter of earnings and is systematically underreported …

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Horizontal and Vertical Polarization : Task-Specific Technological Change in a Multi-Sector Economy

Lee, Sang Yoon - 2017

We analyze the effect of technological change in a novel framework that integrates an economy's skill distribution with its occupational and industrial structure. Individuals become managers or workers based on their managerial vs. worker skills, and workers further sort into a continuum of...

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Debt Constraints and Employment

Kehoe, Patrick - 2016

During the Great Recession, regions of the United States that experienced the largest declines in household debt also experienced the largest drops in consumption, employment, and wages. Employment declines were larger in the nontradable sector and for firms that were facing the worst credit...

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Who values human capitalists' human capital? : the earnings and labor supply of U.S. physicians

Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Polyakova, Maria; Rinz, Kevin; … - 2023

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