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A major benefit of education is the lower risk of unemployment at higher educational levels. In PSID (Panel Study of … Income Dynamics) data on the male labor force1 the reduction of the incidence of unemployment is found to be far more … frequency of job turnover of more educated workers, which creates fewer episodes of unemployment, is in large part attributable …
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How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group … of cooperating firms. The theory guides the measurement of labor "markdowns", i.e., the gap between wage and the value of …
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the long-run effects on health, labor, and human capital of both historical pandemics (with a focus on the 1918 Influenza …
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We compare Laffer curves for labor and capital taxation for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries, using … US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor taxes and by 6% by raising capital income taxes. For the EU-14 we … obtain 8% and 1%. Dynamic scoring for the EU-14 shows that 54% of a labor tax cut and 79% of a capital tax cut are self …
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We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian …
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Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, home production, commuting and schooling for the last 105 years. We also present empirical and...
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job can occupy a substantial portion of a person's day with work, thereby reducing the amount of time available for drug … complementary reinforcers). Finally, employment may decrease drug use to the extent that drug use results in loss of wages or job (i …
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their limitations by altering their job demands or by changing jobs. These findings point to the potential for adjustments … on both sides of the market: by employers-- in the form of job accommodation--and by employees--in the form of job change …
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status, while job related physical exercise retards health deterioration …
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men. These changes appear to be concentrated at lower education levels …
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