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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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Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality : Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era
Fishback, Price V. - 2008
One of the most difficult problems in the social sciences is measuring the policy climate in societies. Prior to the 1930s the vast majority of labor regulations in the U.S. were enacted at the state level. In this paper we develop several summary measures of labor regulation that document the...
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Law and Employment : Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
Heckman, James - 2003
This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a forthcoming NBER book. It places Latin American economies and economic policies in a world context. The paper quantifies the cost of regulation in Latin America and OECD Europe...
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The Regulation of Labor
Djankov, Simeon - 2003
We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security laws in 85 countries. We find that richer countries regulate labor less than poorer countries do, although they have more generous social security systems. The political power...
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Aggregate Employment Fluctuations with Microeconomic Asymmetries
Campbell, Jeffrey R. - 1996
We provide a simple explanation for the observation that the variance of job destruction is greater than the variance of job creation: job creation is costlier at the margin than job destruction. As Caballero [2] has argued, asymmetric employment adjustment costs at the establishment level need...
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How Does China's New Labor Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2013
China's new Labor Contract Law took effect on January 2008 and required firms to give migrant workers written contracts …
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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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The Global Financial Cycle
Miranda-Agrippino, Silvia; Rey, Hélène - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
effects of the monetary policies of the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and of the People's Bank of China on the …
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Leverage-Induced Fire Sales and Stock Market Crashes
Bian, Jiangze - 2018
We provide direct evidence of leverage-induced fire sales contributing to a market crash using account-level trading data for brokerage- and shadow-financed margin accounts during the Chinese stock market crash of 2015. Margin investors heavily sell their holdings when their account-level...
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Exporting and Firm Performance : Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis
Park, Albert - 2009
We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct firm-specific exchange rate shocks based on the pre-crisis destinations of firms' exports. Because the shocks were unanticipated and large, they are a plausible instrument for...
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