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This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...
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This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457023
This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content for general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical foundations. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788917
, more unemployment, lower wages, lessens over time but is still present after three years. …
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This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market en- trants over their life cycle. We identify four distinctly di®erent types of transition patterns between discrete earnings states in a large administrative data set. Further, we investigate the e®ects of labor...
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Labor force outcomes after an involuntary job loss tend to differ systematically between men and women, with women experiencing a lower probability of finding another job, a longer average duration of nonemployment, and larger losses in hours given reemployment. This study examines the role of...
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characteristics valued by employers as well as by spouses or because they earn high wages. This paper examines the selection …
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Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about whether higher levels of immigration reduce the wages of natives …. This paper reexamines this question using data from the Current Population Survey and the Immigration and Naturalization … increase in the fraction of workers in an occupation group who are foreign born tends to lower the wages of low-skilled natives …
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The United States has not created a major amnesty program that would allow undocumented immigrants to legalize their status since 1986. As the number of undocumented immigrants has surged in recent decades, momentum for a new amnesty program has gained ground. This paper discusses the current...
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