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Labor Markets in Latin America: A Supply-Side Story
Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1998
This paper shows that the factors affecting labor supply have been key determinants of the changes in employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327033
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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment: Some cross-country evidence
Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2009
objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273947
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EU employment dynamics: The pandemic years and beyond
Jestl, Stefan; Stehrer, Robert - 2021
difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565947
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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective
Şahin, Afşin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, M. Hakan - 2013
This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment …, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500246
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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development
Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007
India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that `employment generation' has been the most important channel through which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807601
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Population Ageing, Government Budgets, and Productivity Growth in Politico-Economic Equilibrium
Gonzales-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2007
We analyze the effect of changes in fertility and longevity on taxes, the composition of government spending, and productivity. To that purpose, we introduce politics in an OLG economy with endogenous growth due to human and physical capital accumulation. Population ageing shifts political power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430063
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The baby boom and the stock market boom
Lim, Kyung-Mook; Weil, David N. - 2003
This paper addresses two issues. The first is whether demographic change was plausibly responsible for the run-up in stock prices over the last decade, and whether the attempt by the baby boom cohort to cash out of its investments in the period 2010-30 might lead to an “asset meltdown.” The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318880
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The Economic Consequences of the Decline of Marriage
Bergmann, Barbara R. - 2008
The institution of marriage has served to funnel economic resources from fathers to children. Its continued decline in the countries of the developed world threatens the adequacy of the economic support of human reproduction, now increasingly provided by women. Its decline is also probably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294870
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The Effect of Joint Custody on Marriage and Divorce
Halla, Martin - 2009
Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different timing of reforms across states and the control group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294901
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Behavioral responses to taxes: lessons from the EITC and labor supply
Hoynes, Hilary W.; Eissa, Nada - 2005
Twenty-two million families currently receive a total of $34 billion dollars in benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In fact, the EITC is the largest cash transfer program for lower-income families at the federal level. An unusual feature of the credit is its explicit goal to use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266421