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Job Stability in the United States
Diebold, Francis X.; Neumark, David; Polsky, Daniel - 2021
Survey job tenure supplements. In contrast to the distribution of wages, which clearly changed in the 1980s, we find that job …
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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth
Dew-Becker, Ian L. - 2008
Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...
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Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998
Montenegro, Claudio E.; Pages, Carmen - 2021
Economists have examined the impact of labor market regulations on the level of employment. However, there are many reasons to suspect that the impact of regulations differs across types of workers. In this paper we take advantage of the unusual large variance in labor policy in Chile to exa...
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Technology and Labor Regulations
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013
Many low skilled jobs have been substituted away for machines in Europe, or eliminated, much more so than in the US, while technological progress at the quot;topquot;, i.e. at the high-tech sector, is faster in the US than in Europe. This paper suggests that the main difference between Europe...
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Technology and Labor Regulations : Theory and Evidence
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2015
This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in technology across sectors in a model of labor saving technologies. Labor market regulations reduce the skill premium and as a result, if technologies are labor saving, countries with more stringent labor regulation,...
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Economic Reforms and Labor Markets : Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile
Edwards, Sebastian; Edwards, Alejandra Cox - 2021
This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … concentrate on the reform to job security, on the decentralization of the wage bargaining process, and on the reduction in payroll …' to U.S' levels. We argue that the reduction of payroll taxes (within the context of the social security reform), and the …
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Can Unemployment Insurance Spur Entrepreneurial Activity?
Hombert, Johan - 2014
We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started … in response to the reform are, on average, smaller, but have similar growth expectations and education levels compared to …
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Endogenous Stratification in Randomized Experiments
Abadie, Alberto - 2013
Researchers and policy makers are often interested in estimating how treatments or policy interventions affect the outcomes of those most in need of help. This concern has motivated the increasingly common practice of disaggregating experimental data by groups constructed on the basis of an...
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Employment and Training Programs
Barnow, Burton S. - 2015
This chapter considers means-tested employment and training programs in the United States. We focus in particular on large, means-tested federal programs, including the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), its successor the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), that program's recent replacement, the...
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Choosing Among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods for Estimating the Impact of Social Programs : the Case of Manpower Training
Heckman, James J. - 2021
The recent literature on evaluating manpower training programs demonstrates that alternative nonexperimental estimators of the same program produce a array of estimates of program impact. These findings have led to the call for experiments to be used to perform credible program evaluations....
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