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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 and the US in this respect is their different labor market policies …
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Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets : Problems and Solutions
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2014
Blacks in the United States are poorer than whites and have much lower employment rates. "Place-based" policies seek to improve the labor markets in which blacks - especially low-income urban blacks - tend to reside. We first review the literature on spatial mismatch, which provides much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068132
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Labor Market Institutions Around the World
Freeman, Richard B. - 2010
The paper documents the large cross-country differences in labor institutions that make them a candidate explanatory factor for the divergent economic performance of countries and reviews what economists have learned about the effects of these institutions on economic outcomes. It identifies...
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International Labor Economics
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
I argue for increased reliance on non-U.S. data and policy evaluations to understand basic labor- market parameters and to predict the effects of changes in U.S. labor-market policies. Foreign experiences generate exogenous shocks to labor costs that create unusual opportunities to measure...
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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 taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent...
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Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy
Davis, Donald R. - 2021
the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been …
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Place Based Policies with Unemployment
Kline, Patrick - 2013
Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard spatial equilibrium models with perfectly competitive labor and land markets, local job creation efforts are distortionary. We develop a stylized model of frictional local labor...
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Riding the Wave of Trade : Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization
Huberman, Michael - 2010
The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage a level playing field. The type of trade...
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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 … growth within Europe. We document this tradeoff in the raw data, in regressions that control for the two-way causation …
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The Same Yet Different : Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries
Freeman, Richard B. - 2010
This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...
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