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savings options generate an increase in labor effort in both self-employment and in the wage market. The results suggest that …The world's poor are seeing a rapid expansion in access to formal savings accounts. What is the source of savings when … each week. We find that the headwaters of formal savings lie in sacrificed leisure time: households work more, and improved …
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Japanese annual time series data covering the period 1951 to 1982 reveals that changes in the program of social security retirement benefits have substantial influence on personal saving and retirement behavior. The empirical results show that social security retirement benefits depress personal...
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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …
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women's real wages. The experience of the 1970's suggests, however, that real wage growth cannot account for the increase In … participation decisions is the level of uncertainty associated with expectations of future wages, and that high levels of …
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-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the …'s employment record cannot be drawn from aggregate data …
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In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and … heterogeneity, job-specific error components in both wages and hours, and measurement error. We use the model to address a number of … important questions in labor economics, including the source of the experience profile of wages, the response of job changes to …
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find no significant difference in the wages of workers in Miami relative to its control after 1980. We also show that by …
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of STEM worker growth on the wages and employment of college and non-college educated native workers in 219 U.S. cities … workers in a city were associated with significant increases in wages paid to college educated natives. Wage increases for non …-college educated natives are smaller but still significant. We do not find significant effects on employment. We also find that STEM …
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This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
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