Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Editorial -- Abhandlungen/Original Papers -- Causal Returns to Education: A Survey on Empirical Evidence for Germany / Flossmann, Anton L. -- Heterogeneous Returns to Training / Kuckulenz, Anja / Maier, Michael -- Employment Protection: Its Effects on...

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. An Approach to Manpower Problems. 2. Manpower Planning and the Market. 3. A New Concept of the Employment Service. 4. Organization and Staff for an Effective Service. 5. Planning on the Demand Side. 6. Planning Adjustments in Supply. 7. The Economics of Manpower...

This volume contains revised versions of the papers presented in 1971 at the Princeton University Conference on Discrimination in Labor Markets, and the formal discussions of them.This paper is by Kenneth Arrow, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, who lays the theoretical foundations of the...

This book explores growth and structural change in the labor force that accompany economic development. It reports on labor force characteristics in one hundred countries around the world, a project of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Based on a world-wide...

Does export lead to improvement in labor market outcomes? The answer to this is not always clear from the literature. Despite the rising role of export markets, informality is still high, and inequality is worsening in many developing economies. In addition, export expansion driven by...

New technologies can shape the production process by affecting the way in which inputs are embedded in the organization, their quality, and their use. Using an original employer-employee dataset that merges firm-level data on digital technology adoption and other characteristics of production...