Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 585
Cover Image
Job search methods, intensity and success in Britain in the 1990s
Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P - 2002
We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294537
Cover Image
Digital adoption, automation, and labor markets in developing and emerging economies
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Mandelman, Federico S. - 2019
emerging economies. No link between digital adoption and the unemployment rate is found, however. To explain this evidence, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389577
Cover Image
Decomposing the education wage gap: Everything but the kitchen sink
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Shiferaw, Menbere - 2010
This paper contributes to a large literature concerned with identifying the source of the widening wage gap between high school and college graduates by providing a comprehensive, multidimensional decomposition of wages across both time and educational status. Data from a multitude of sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292295
Cover Image
Skill mismatch and returns to education in manufacturing: A case of India's textile and clothing industry
Kukreja, Prateek - 2018
coupled with unemployment or underemployment among highly educated workers. While a shortage of skills (or under-education) is …: Textiles and Clothing (T&C). The study is based on the 68th round of NSS Employment and Unemployment Survey estimates. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099535
Cover Image
Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999, 2000) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460733
Cover Image
Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market
Acar, Elif Öznur; Tansel, Aysit - 2014
This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive statistics. They are the enterprise definition and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500274
Cover Image
Structural change in developing countries: Has it decreased gender inequality?
Rendall, Michelle - 2012
This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316911
Cover Image
Induced automation: Evidence from firm-level patent data
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David; Olsen, Morten; … - 2021
Do higher wages lead to more automation innovation? To answer this question, we first use the frequency of certain … keywords in patent text to create a new measure of automation innovation in machinery. We show that our measure is correlated …-level panel analysis, we find that an increase in low-skill wages leads to more automation innovation with an elasticity between 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012513584
Cover Image
Can Demography Improve Inflation Forecasts? The Case of Sweden
Bruér, Mattias - 2002
Time series regressions indicate that age structure has significant forecasting power on Swedish inflation. The results agree with a Phillips-Okun framework, assuming that the demographic composition affects productivity. The relative age effects are also relatively well in accordance with what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321784
Cover Image
Population growth and carbon emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669327