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Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...

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Rethinking the area approach: Immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960-2005

Peri, Giovanni - 2009

A series of recent influential papers has emphasized that in order to identify the wage effects of immigration one …. Hence if we look at the employment (rather than wage) response to immigration by state, we can still estimate the … characteristics of Mexican migrants to the US to predict immigration by skill level in California. Looking at immigraton between 1960 …

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The role of gender inequalities in explaining income growth, poverty and inequality: Evidence from Latin American countries

Costa, Joana; Silva, Elydia; Vaz, Fábio - 2009

This Working Paper investigates the possible link between gender inequalities in the labour market and significant economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight Latin American countries. We consider four aspects of...

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Counting gigs: How can we measure the scale of online platform work?

Piasna, Agnieszka - 2020

The potential transformation of labour markets by the emergence of online labour platforms has triggered an intense academic, media and policy debate, but its true scale remains speculation. Nevertheless, adequate policy responses hinge on a good understanding of dynamics - something that will...

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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

This paper studies the way workers and firms behaved in a highly cyclical sector such as the cotton textile industry, which encompassed 1/5 of the Catalan industrial workforce in the early 20th century. Using firm level evidence from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the paper shows that,...

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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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