As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

Dieser Beitrag beleuchtet die Frage, inwieweit Personalrecruiter das Internet nutzen, um den persoenlichen Hintergrund ihrer Bewerber auszuleuchten. Waehrend das Thema in den Tagesmedien ausfuehrlich eroertert wurde, beginnt die Forschung gerade erst, sich dafuer zu interessieren. Mit diesem...

Race and ethnicity play a central role in understainding the structure of inequality in the United States. In this paper, we focus on the economic chasm between black and white America and what economic theory can contribute to our understanding of both inequality and the design of effective policy.

Race and ethnicity play a central role in understainding the structure of inequality in the United States. In this paper, we focus on the economic chasm between black and white America and what economic theory can contribute to our understanding of both inequality and the design of effective policy.

We investigate the relationship between the main indicators of the labour market in Russia. We try to construct a model of the Russian labour market and identify key relationships. Our special attention is drawn to the impact of the crisis on the Russian labour market and influence of oil price...

The present study examines the evolution of employment and labour market trends in the new EU member states (NMS), the accession countries (ACs) and the countries of Southeastern Europe (SEE) over the past decade and a half. It focuses on selected labour market indicators and compares them with...

This paper offers and tests a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for general training they receive.

A substantial proportion of working age individuals in Britain are looking after sick, disabled, and elderly people and combine work and caring responsibilities. Using the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) for the years 1991 to 2002 this paper studies the determinants of labour market...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo la estimación deltrabajo doméstico (reproductivo) en Colombia, realizadoal interior del hogar y su imputación equivalentea precios sombra, para lo cual se parte del enfoquede la Nueva Economía de la Familia desarrollado porBecker (1981; 1985) y la metodología...