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This paper analyzes economic behavior and the effects of training and income support policies in the low wage labor market for women. The opportunity set takes account of nonlinearities and discontinuities associated with career interruption, part-time work, and government programs. There are...
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status.Our empirical analysis suggests the following conclusions.1)Wages for work while not retired and for work while … to distinguish between wages paid to the partially retired and to the not retired causes a sizable exaggeration of the …
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We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … outsourcing and expenditures on high-technology equipment can explain a substantial amount of the increase in the wages of …
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In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue … the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the share of skilled labor in total wages in Mexico using state … account for over 50 percent of the increase in the skilled labor share of total wages that occurred during the late 1980s …
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In this paper we examine the reduction in the relative employment and wages of unskilled workers in the U.S. during the …
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This paper analyzes the school enrollment and labor supply decisions of teenagers and young adults as jointly deter-mined outcomes. The empirical results are based on an application of discrete multivariate analysis to a sample taken from the Survey of Income and Education. Higher relative wage...
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as big as it was. If housing prices had not responded at all to the China shock, then the total employment effect of the … shock, however, so the independent employment effect of the China shock is reduced by about 20-30%, with that remainder …
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This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in the 1970's and 1980's. Work incentives associated with pension" coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the...
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We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United …
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The composition, wealth and employment of male veterans and nonveterans are analyzed for four cohorts from the Health …
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