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relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the existence of substitution of employment across times of the day …
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In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and …
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Demographic differences in patterns of employment variation over the business cycle are examined in this paper. Three … in the labor market. Second, young people bear a disproportionate share of cyclical employment variation. Third, failure …
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Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
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present a theoretical overview of the effects of health insurance on mobility and wage/employment determination. I critically …
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divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement … does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage … Participation (SIPP). We then exploit variation in laws governing divorce across states and over time to quasi …
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-biased technology as the theory of directed technologial change would predict. Combining these effects, an increase in employment in a … employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … existence of communities of immigrants before 1960, as instruments. We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment …
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whether the time series behavior of macroeconomic aggregates (especially labor market aggregates) is in fact supportive of …
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This paper examines the role that work incentives play in the determination of work hours. Following previous research by Lang (1989), we use a conventional efficiency wage model to analyze how firms respond to worker preferences regarding wage-hours packages. We find that when workers are...
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disorders on employment and conditional work hours and income. Two-stage instrumental variables methods were used to correct for … reduced employment among both men and women. Evidence was also found of small reductions in the conditional work hours of men …
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