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Technology and Labor Regulations
Alesina, Alberto - 2006
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 "top", 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. European …
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Economic Reforms and Labor Markets : Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile
Edwards, Sebastian - 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471121
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Labor Market Institutions Around the World
Freeman, Richard B. - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465411
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International Labor Economics
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2002
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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Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets : Problems and Solutions
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2011
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/10012461671
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Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy
Davis, Donald R. - 1996
the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473209
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Confidence, Crashes and Animal Spirits
Farmer, Roger E.A. - 2009
This paper presents a model of the macroeconomy that reformulates what I take to be two important ideas from Keynes General Theory. The first is that there may be a continuum of steady state unemployment rates. The second is that beliefs select an equilibrium. I argue that search and matching...
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The Role of Shocks and Institutions in the Rise of European Unemployment : The Aggregate Evidence
Blanchard, Olivier - 1999
Two key facts about European unemployment must be explained: the rise in unemployment since the 1960s, and the heterogeneity of individual country experiences. While adverse shocks can potentially explain much of the rise in unemployment, there is insufficient heterogeneity in these shocks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471501
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Why Do Sectoral Employment Programs Work? Lessons from WorkAdvance
Katz, Lawrence F. - 2020
This paper examines the evidence from randomized evaluations of sector-focused training programs that target low-wage workers and combine upfront screening, occupational and soft skills training, and wraparound services. The programs generate substantial and persistent earnings gains (11 to 40...
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Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations : A Meta-Analysis
Card, David - 2010
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample contains 199 separate "program estimates" - estimates of the impact of a particular program on a specific subgroup of participants - drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995...
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