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Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2011

. Using official county-level voting data and a variety of OLS and TSLS models, we find that increases in wages and employment … increases in employment lead to less use of the media and reduced political knowledge, and present associational individual …

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011

whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …

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Time for Children : Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009

Fox, Liana - 2011

children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … coordinating employment schedules for some dual-earner families …

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Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden

Laun, Lisa - 2011

This paper describes the development of population health and disability insurance utilization for older workers in Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality rate (measured between 1950 and 2009); (2) the prevalence...

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Disability Pension Program and Labor Force Participation in Japan : A Historical Perspective

Oshio, Takashi - 2011

This paper utilizes historical information to explore the relationship between labor force participation of middle aged and old people and the disability program in Japan. In particular, we explore the time series dimension to identify what has determined the trend in disability program...

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HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa

Levinsohn, James A. - 2011

econometric methods based on the propensity score to estimate the causal effect of HIV status on employment outcomes in South …

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Behavioral Responses to Taxes : Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply

Eissa, Nada - 2012

Twenty-two million families currently receive a total of $34 billion dollars in benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In fact, the EITC is the largest cash transfer program for lower-income families at the federal level. An unusual feature of the credit is its explicit goal to use...

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Direct Investment, Rising Real Wages and the Absorption of Excess Labor in the Periphery

Dooley, Michael P. - 2012

This paper sets out the political economy behind Asian governments' participation in a revived Bretton Woods System. The overriding problem for these governments is to rapidly integrate a large pool of underemployed labor into the industrial sector. The principal constraints are inefficient...

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Costly Labor Adjustment : Effects of China's Employment Regulations

Cooper, Russell - 2012

This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new … restrictions are intended to protect workers' employment conditions by, among other things, increasing firing costs and increasing … employment, slightly increase labor reallocation and reduce exit. The estimated elasticity of labor demand is about unity so that …

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Hiring, Churn and the Business Cycle

Lazear, Edward P. - 2012

Churn, defined as replacing departing workers with new ones as workers move to more productive uses, is an important feature of labor dynamics. The majority of hiring and separation reflects churn rather than hiring for expansion or separation for contraction. Using the JOLTS data, we show that...

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