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Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998
Montenegro, Claudio - 2003
unusual large variance in labor policy in Chile to exa mine how different labor market regulations affect the distribution of … employment and the employment rates across age, gender and skill levels. To this effect, we use a sample of repeated cross …
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Changing Income Risk across the US Skill Distribution : Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter
Braxton, J. Carter; Herkenhoff, Kyle; Rothbaum, Jonathan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
(i.e., unemployment) and easily integrates into theoretical models. We apply our filter to a unique linkage of 23.5m SSA … of persistent earnings losses associated with full year unemployment has increased by 50%. Using geography, education …
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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth
Dew-Becker, Ian - 2008
Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...
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Self-Selection and International Migration : New Evidence from Mexico
Kaestner, Robert - 2010
This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to examine the patterns of selection of male, Mexican migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education distribution, but show that there is no evidence...
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What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment over the Life Cycle
Gervais, Martin - 2014
Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market … observed age differences in unemployment which, as in the data, are due to differences in job separation rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458037
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Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States
Gosling, Amanda - 2001
This paper compares trends in male and female hourly wage inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1979 and 1998. Our main finding is that the extent and pattern of wage inequality became increasingly similar in the two countries during this period. We attribute this...
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Economic Reforms and Labor Markets : Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile
Edwards, Sebastian - 2000
taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European …This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis …
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The Requirements of Jobs : Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey
Gittleman, Maury - 2016
The Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) is a new survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics which collects data on the educational, cognitive, and physical requirements of jobs, as well as the environmental conditions in which the work is performed. Using pre-production data, we provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456457
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Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2004
Microeconomic flexibility, by facilitating the process of creative-destruction, is at the core of economic growth in modern market economies. The main reason for why this process is not infinitely fast, is the presence of adjustment costs, some of them technological, other institutional. Chief...
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Job Stability in the United States
Diebold, Francis X. - 1994
Two key attributes of a job are its wage and its duration. Much has been made of changes in the wage distribution in the 1980s, but little attention has been given to job durations since Hall (1982). We fill this void by examining the temporal evolution of job retention rates in U.S. labor...
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