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Japan and her dealings with offshoring: An empirical analysis with aggregate data
Agnese, Pablo - 2011
First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …
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Offshoring and job stability: Evidence from Italian manufacturing
Lo Turco, Alessia; Maggioni, Daniela; Picchio, Matteo - 2012
We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an … stability. Service offshoring and material purchases from developed countries foster job-to-job transitions within manufacturing … material offshoring to low income countries which drives blue collar workers out of manufacturing. Therefore, policy …
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Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure
Firpo, Sergio; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2011
This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278329
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The Effect of Health Changes and Long-Term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians
Au, Doreen; Crossley, Thomas F.; Schellhorn, Martin - 2004
health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262030
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What do participation fluctuations tell us about labor supply elasticities?
Haefke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 2011
In this paper we use information on the cyclical variation of labor market participation to learn about the aggregate labor supply elasticity. For this purpose, we extend the standard labor market matching model to allow for endogenous participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282265
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International labour force participation rates by gender: Unit root or structural breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011
in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
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Are labor force participation rates really non-stationary? Evidence from three OECD countries
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2012
rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …
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The effects of female labor force participation on obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - 2011
This paper assesses whether a causal relationship exists between recent increases in female labor force participation and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s and 1990s have been established by prior literature as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286901
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The impact of non-parental child care on child development: Evidence from the summer participation "dip"
Herbst, Chris M. - 2012
Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive development, few studies deal convincingly with the potential endogeneity of child care choices. Using a panel of infants and toddlers from the Birth cohort of the Early Childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291341
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Migraine headache and labor market outcomes
Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012
While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...
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