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Changes in the structure and regulation of employment in Japan differentially impact men and women. The labor force … course, while men are more likely to experience unemployment at the entry and exit points to the labor market. Unemployment … gender segmented labor market, with men continuing in relatively protected and regulated standard employment and women …
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There is some indirect evidence that child labor is affected by market imperfections. This paper provides a theoretical … model to discuss the effect of improvements on the labor market, when households cannot rely on neither the land nor the … credit markets. The predictions differ by land ownership: landless or large landowners should decrease child labor when labor …
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during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the … effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits variation across countries using non-signers as a comparison group. The … of labor inspectors and a 60 percent increase in the number of inspections. The North American Free Trade Agreement …
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This paper shows that workers who do not receive legally mandated benefits due to employer noncompliance have a negative view not only of their employers, as has been documented, but also of the State. Those workers believe that the State did not protect their rights, and hence they feel fewer...
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Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor … market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they … identify the effect of acculturation on labor market outcomes of Chinese students with bachelor?s degrees in Chinese colleges …
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In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in …
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changes in heterogeneity, e.g. increased demand for skilled labor, are also analyzed. In the most reasonable setup, a change …
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price, the backbone of all theories, is a typical example. This study is an alternative value-price theory, a labor embodied … approach. The key concept of analysis is mental labor, the source of all value-added and accumulated, given natural resources … and physical labor. …
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This paper describes a search model with a continuum of worker and job types, free entry and transferable utility. We apply a second-order Taylor expansion to characterize the equilibrium, derive the cost of search and show that it is decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This cost...
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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