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mothers' labor force participation and its impact on their children's educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we … find that a mother's participation in the labor force increases her children's time spent in school and leads to better …
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The three-sector framework (relating to agriculture, manufacturing, and services) is one of the major concepts for studying the long-run dynamics of the economic structure. We summarize the empirical/theoretical literature consensus by formulating 'economic laws' of long-run structural change in...
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effects and the labor market affect the demand for medical treatment. In the framework, forward-looking patients do not simply … maximize underlying health or longevity. Rather, they choose labor supply and medicine in light of potential side effects in an …
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Abstract The Kansas Bureau of Labor and Industry surveyed attitudes towards immigration during the 1890s. The surveys … reveal that individuals opposed immigration for cultural and economic reasons. Key correlates were the position in the labor …
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A commentary on the Doha Development Round by a representative of the AFL-CIO.Thea Lee is Policy Director at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., where she oversees research and strategies on domestic and international economic policy. Previously, she worked as an international trade economist at...
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We summarize procedures for assessing the benefits and costs of using labor inputs in public projects. Examples are … provided to illustrate how information on labor inputs can be analyzed and presented such that, should the analyst choose …, labor services generate elements of both benefit and cost in times of high unemployment; however, this is not generally …
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Abstract Amazon is facing growing scrutiny over its workplace, community, and environmental harms, but interventions remain fragmented: grassroots organizing efforts against productivity quotas and diesel emissions have yet to be incorporated into policy debates over whether Amazon should be...
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accompany internal labor markets. Our model reduces the unexplained portion of the observed earnings gap between males and …
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life-cycle framework. I also use a number of specifications of reduced form models for mortality, morbidity, and labor … labor supply, (b) allows the decisions to be made in a life-cycle framework, (c) is set in a stochastic environment, and (d … in the health status of the two groups disappears.I estimate five labor withdrawal models at two stages of the life …
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