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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...

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Labor Hoarding in Russia: Where Does it Come From?

Koumakhov, Rouslan; Najman, Boris - 2001

The paper focuses on the labor "hoarding" problem in Russian. We studied two forms of "hoarding": unpaid leaves and short-time work. Our research is based on the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) database. The paper exploits individual panel data between 1994 and 1996. We show that...

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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Fleisher, Belton M.; Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004

We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition economies covering a period from 1975 through 2002. Our...

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The globalization of labor markets and its policy implications

Frank Oskamp - 2010

Since the 1990s, the effective global labor supply has increased strongly, in particular due to the integration of China and India into the global markets. This rise has also deteriorated the situation of low-skilled workers in advanced economies. This development raises important challenges for...

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Skills, Labour Costs, and Vertically Differentiated Industries: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Lutz, Stefan; Turrini, Alessandro - 1999

for industry profitability. Though, high wages appear also to be associated with high labour skills and then with superior … skilled labour. Given an underlying skills distribution, the model determines profits, wages and aggregate income and welfare …. Results show that high net wages due to a low skills endowment in the economy are typically associated with low profits …

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Ageing, productivity and employment status

Anghel, Brindusa; Lacuesta Gabarain, Aitor

documented that as people age they gradually lose certain skills relating to their ability to do physical work or use new … technologies, or their literacy and numeracy skills. By contrast, as they build up experience, older workers develop better … planning skills and a greater ability to supervise the work of others and respond to setbacks. However, the transition between …

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On the job search in a matching model with heterogeneous jobs and workers

Dolado Lobregad, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno … - 2008

inequality, and the response of the labour market to shifts in the demand and supply of skills …

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New technologies and jobs in Europe

Albanesi, Stefania; Da Silva, António Dia; Jimeno, Juan F.

Examinamos el vínculo entre la evolución del mercado laboral y las nuevas tecnologías —como la inteligencia artificial (IA) y el software— en 16 países europeos durante el período 2011-2019. Usando datos para ocupaciones al nivel de 3 dígitos en Europa, encontramos que, en promedio, el...

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ESSAYS ON THE MACROECONOMICS OF INCOME INEQUALITY

Ozkan, Serdar - 2011

This thesis consists of three chapters, each of which focuses on different aspects of economic inequality.First, we investigate the differences in wage inequality between the United States and continental European countries (CEU). Wage inequality has been significantly higher in the US compared...

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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years

Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R - 2011

The extent of openness to international trade may alter incentives differentially by gender for labor force participation, particularly in economies in which gender differentials in human capital investments such as schooling are large and in which norms about gender behaviors are strong. This...

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