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finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the cross …
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: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment … of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … population growth, labor supply, employment shifts, and growth of output per worker are presented and discussed.The key result of …
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states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … employment of married women …
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We develop a dynamic microsimulation model to project the labor force and economic dependency ratios in the United States from 2022 to 2060, taking population projections and the large inequalities between population groups of different race/ethnicity and gender into account. We contrast policy...
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This paper examines two questions: how will the labor force change over the next 20 years, and can social policy significantly alter its size and shape. In the last twenty years, the overall labor force grew by 35 percent and the so-called prime age workforce those aged 25-54 grew by a...
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Disappointing recent growth rates, the emergence of structurally unfavorable income and employment conditions, and …
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Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action … was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …
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-wage jobs in higher-earning industries and occupations not just by raising employment. Training in transferable and certifiable … skills (likely under-provided from poaching concerns) and reductions of employment barriers to high-wage sectors for non …
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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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