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SEARCH IN MACROECONOMIC MODELS OF THE LABOR MARKET

Rogerson, Richard; Shimer, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> - 2010

This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregatelabor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. Wefirst consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We...

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Rules and Reality: Quantifying the Practice of Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe

Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper uses recently digitised samples of apprentices and masters in London and Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late 17th century. Apprenticeship appears much more fluid than is traditionally understood. Many apprentices did not complete their terms of indenture;...

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Labour Market Adjustment to Economic Downturns in the Catalan TextileIndustry, 1880-1910. Did Employers Breach Implicit Contracts?

Domenech, Jordi - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

labour market for female workers, limiting the pressure of unemployed workers on prevailing wages.[...] …

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Workers and ‘Subalterns’: A comparative study of labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Lewis, Colin M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

[...]In part, this collection of papers derives from the impact of Subaltern Studies on approaches to the history of labour. While the contributions may not be located within ‘subalternism’, to differing degrees they reflect responses in the literature to that paradigm. At the very least,...

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Labour markets in China: coming to terms with globalisation

Warner, Malcolm - Judge Business School <Cambridge>

The People’s Republic of China (Zhonghua renmín gongheguo) henceforth to bereferred to as ‘PRC’, or just ‘China’, is the country with the oldest continuous existenceas a political entity in the world, going back millennia. It was known as the ‘MiddleKingdom’ and was for centuries...

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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES

Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

In Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), escape from poverty and convergence to livingstandards of more advanced economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate growth and job creation. So far,however,...

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Unemployment and Finance:How do Financial and Labour Market FactorsInteract?

Gatti, Donatella; Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

Using annual data for 18 OECD countries over the period 1980-2004, we investigate howlabour and financial factors interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamicpanel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We show that theimpact of financial variables depends...

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Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in China, 1738-1925: in Comparison with Europe, Japan and India

Allen, Robert C.; Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Ma, Debin; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper develops data on the history of wages and prices in Beijing, Canton, Suzhou/Shanghai in China from the … eighteenth century to the twentieth and compare them with leading cities in Europe, Japan and India in terms of nominal wages … Europe. Real wages declined in China in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and rose slowly in the late nineteenth …

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Evolution of Living Standards and Human Capital in China in 18-20th Century: Evidences from Real Wage and Anthropometrics

Baten, Jörg; Ma, Debin; Morgan, Stephen L.; Wang, Qing - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This article mobilizes and integrates both existing and new time series data on real wages, physical heights and age …

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Zum Einfluß asymmetrischer Besteuerung auf die Vorteilhaftigkeiterfolgsabhängiger Entlohnungsverträge

Niemann, Rainer - Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre - 2010

In diesem Beitrag werden die Effekte symmetrischer und asymmetrischer Besteuerungauf die Vorteilhaftigkeit erfolgsabhängiger und erfolgsunabhängiger Entlohnungsverträgeuntersucht. Dazu wird ein binäres Agency-Modell verwendet, in das eine proportionaleUnternehmenssteuer auf Ebene des...

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