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Labor market characteristics and the determinants of political support for social insurance
Duman, Anil - 2006
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Labor Markets and Social Security : Issues and Policy Options in the U.S. and Europe
Addison, John T. - 2004 - Second Edition
These continue to be difficult times for the labor markets of the industrialized nations. Shifts in labor demand, deregulatory impulses, and the ongoing process of globalization have each impacted the labor markets of the United States and Europe. In the face of the globalization of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013518697
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Will women be women? : analyzing the gender difference among financial experts
Beckmann, Daniela (contributor); Menkhoff, Lukas (contributor) - 2008
of decision making? We analyze survey responses of 649 fund managers in the U.S., Germany, Italy and Thailand, and find … that female fund managers tend to behave as expected from gender studies: they are more risk averse and shy away from … insignificant in fund management. -- fund managers ; gender differences ; risk ; overconfidence ; tournament behavior …
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Multi-period credit default prediction with time-varying covariates
Orth, Walter - 2011 - First draft: March 17, 2011
-period predictions ; hazard models ; panel data ; out-of-sample tests …
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Estimating the green potential of occupations : a new approach applied to the U.S. labor market
Rutzer, Christian; Niggli, Matthias; Weder, Rolf - 2020
This paper presents a new approach to estimate the green potential of occupations. Using data from O*NET on the skills that workers possess and the tasks they carry out, we train several machine learning algorithms to predict the green potential of U.S. occupations classified according to the...
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Using payroll processor microdata to measure aggregate labor market activity
Cajner, Tomaz; Crane, Leland; Decker, Ryan; … - 2018
We show that high-frequency private payroll microdata can help forecast labor market conditions. Payroll employment is perhaps the most reliable real-time indicator of the business cycle and is therefore closely followed by policymakers, academia, and financial markets. Government statistical...
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Gender disparities in employment and aggregate profitability in the United States
Zacharias, Ajit (contributor) - 2008
We explore the relationships between aggregate profitability and women’s growing share of market work in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. Using decomposition analysis and counterfactuals, we investigate whether the contribution of the declining wage share to the upswing in...
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Gender Differences and Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market
Hadavand, Aboozar - 2017
Gender differences in the labor market can be better understood by looking at specific trends within and between each gender group. In this paper, we look specifically at income inequalities that exist between certain segments of the male and female labor force in addition to examining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959527
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Gender and the Business Cycle : A Stocks and Flows Analysis of the US and UK Labour Market States
Razzu, Giovanni - 2019
Starting from an improved understanding of the relationship between gender labour market stocks and the business cycle, we analyse the contributing role of flows in the US and UK. Focusing on the post 2008 recession period, the subsequent greater rise in male unemployment can mostly be explained...
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The Labor Demand Curve Is… Upward Sloping? The Wage Effects of Immigration and Women's Entry into the US Labor Force, 1960-2010
de Brauw, Alan - 2014
The debate over the wage effects of immigration for native workers is an old one. One side of the debate claims that immigration has little if any negative impact on wages among natives, whereas others suggest that immigration has large, negative effects on native wages. On the latter side of...
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