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"Golden Ages" : A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States

Fang, Hanming; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the labor markets in China and the United States, the two largest economies in the world, by examining the … U.S., but decreased sharply from 55 to around 35 in China; second, the age-specific earnings grew drastically in China … similar in the U.S., but differed substantially in China. We propose and empirically implement a decomposition framework to …

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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...

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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...

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The Redesign of the Matching Market for American Physicians : Some Engineering Aspects of Economic Design

Roth, Alvin E. - 1999

We report on the design of the new clearinghouse adopted by the National Resident Matching Program, which annually fills approximately 20,000 jobs for new physicians in the United States. Because that market exhibits many complementarities between applicants and between positions, the theory of...

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Integrating Refugees by Addressing Labor Shortages? A Policy Evaluation

Foged, Mette; Kreuder, Janis; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched refugees to occupations with local labor shortages after basic training for those jobs. Leveraging the staggered roll-out across municipalities, we find that the policy increased...

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Labor Rationing

Breza, Emily; Kaur, Supreet; Shamdasani, Yogita - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper measures excess labor supply in equilibrium. We examine hiring shocks--which employ 24% of the labor force in external month-long jobs--in Indian local labor markets. In peak months, wages increase instantaneously and local aggregate employment declines. In lean months, consistent...

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Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes : Evidence from Saudi Arabia

Cortés, Patricia; Kasoolu, Semiray; Pan, Carolina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In the last decade, Gulf countries have imposed hiring quotas to promote the participation of natives in the private sector and address high levels of unemployment, particularly among women and the youth. This paper explores how one such policy, Nitaqat in Saudi Arabia, affected the outcomes of...

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Increasing the Demand for Workers with a Criminal Record

Cullen, Zoë B.; Dobbie, Will; Hoffman, Mitchell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

State and local policies increasingly restrict employers' access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that employers may conduct criminal background checks. Employers may thus still want to ask about a job applicant's criminal record later in the hiring process or...

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Measuring the Effect of Subsidized Training Programs on Movements In andOut of Employment

Card, David - 1987

We present a variety of alternative estimates of the effect of training on the probability of employment for adult male participants in the 1976 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program. Our results suggest that CETA participation increased the probability of employment in the...

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The Effectiveness of Equal Employment Law and Affirmative Action Regulation

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1985

This paper reviews some recent empirical analyses of the impact of affirmative action and anti-discrimination law on employment and productivity.The major findings are that:1)Affirmative action has some success in improving employment opportunities for minorities and females, particularly for...

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