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Is an Integrated Regional Labor Market Emergin in East and Southeast Asia?

Bloom, David E.; Noor, Waseen - 2021

We examine labor market integration in east and southeast Asia (ESEA) during the 1980s, focusing on intraregional labor mobility and on the two other main channels of integration: capital mobility and trade. We find evidence that labor market integration increased sharply among ESEA countries in...

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Arbitrator Behavior in Public Sector Wage Disputes

Bloom, David E. - 2021

This study analyzes a new set of data on the decisions of conventional arbitrators. The main goal is to draw inferences about the extent to which conventional arbitration decisions are fashioned as mechanical compromises of the parties' final offers, without reference to the exogenous facts...

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The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - 2022

In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...

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Population Growth, Labor Supply, and Employment in Developing Countries

Bloom, David E.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment … of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … population growth, labor supply, employment shifts, and growth of output per worker are presented and discussed.The key result of …

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The Earnings of Linguistic Minorities : French in Canada and Spanish in the United States

Bloom, David E.; Grenier, Gilles - 2021

This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed over time, especially in Quebec. This decline appears...

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