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The observation that liquidations are concentrated in recessions has long been the subject of controversy. One view holds that liquidations are beneficial in that they result in increased restructuring. Another view holds that liquidations are privately inefficient and essentially wasteful. This...
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We find disparate trend variation in TFP and labor growth across major U.S. production sectors over the post-WWII period. When aggregated, these sector-specific trends imply secular declines in the growth rate of aggregate labor and TFP. We embed this sectoral trend variation into a dynamic...
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Linked employer-employee data for Brazil over a period of large-scale trade liberalization document two salient workforce changeovers. Within the traded-goods sector, there is a marked occupation downgrading and a simultaneous education upgrading by which employers fill expanding low-skill...
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We rely on a decomposition of employment changes into job creation and job destruction components - and a novel set of identifying restrictions that this decomposition permits - to develop new evidence about the driving forces behind aggregate fluctuations and the channels through which they...
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occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity …The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth …, from other jurisdictions. This omission is particularly disturbing in the case of Canada, which now has some of the most …
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While there is a large literature on gender differences in important childhood developmental inputs in developing … countries, the evidence for developed countries is relatively limited. I investigate gender differences in some of these inputs … in the US and Canada. In the US very low birthweight males face excess mortality compared to their female counterparts. I …
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. Standard explanations include poverty and a cultural emphasis on male offspring. We study Asian immigrants to Canada using …
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earnings in Canada. When looking at the pattern for women, we find only minor differences in the age-earning relationships …
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We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U …
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This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of re-employment probabilities for young workers in the U.S. Using data from the new National Longitudinal Survey youth cohort a model is developed to analyze the transition probabilities from nonemployment to employment. The key factors...
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