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I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general equilibrium setting, where workers and firms are free to move across localities and local prices adjust to maintain the spatial equilibrium.
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There has been a significant and steady drop in the unemployment rate since late 2009, but unemployment duration remains high and employment as a percentage of the working-age population has not recovered.
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Market regulation, labor policies and the wage-productivity gap [PDF]
This paper proposes an empirical analysis about the influence of some institutional factors (taxation, active and passive labor market policies, labor and goods market regulation and unions’ participation) on the component of the wage growth not ...
Rollin, Andrea, Tilli, Riccardo
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OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine the risk of being granted a disability pension (DP) among incident cancer patients up to five years after diagnosis compared to a match control group, before and after the structural reform of the Danish Disability ...
Pernille Pedersen +5 more
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The Effect of Urbanization on Health Care Expenditure: Evidence From China
This paper investigates the impact and non-linear effects of urbanization on health care expenditure in China. The results indicate that urbanization in both Eastern and Central regions can significantly increase health care expenditure.
Qi Shao, Ran Tao, Magda Mihaela Luca
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Tied Migrant Labor Market Integration: Deconstructing Labor Market Subjectivities in South Africa
The South African labor market is characterized by a high degree of inflexibility and complexity which poses significant challenges for both indigenes and migrants looking to be integrated into the labor market.
Farirai Zinatsa, Musawenkosi D. Saurombe
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The Impossibility of a Perfectly Competitive Labor Market [PDF]
Using the institutional theory of transaction cost, I demonstrate that the assumptions of the competitive labor market model are internally contradictory and lead to the conclusion that on purely theoretical grounds a perfectly competitive labor market ...
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A Welfare Economic Analysis of Labor Market Policies in the Harris-Todaro Model [PDF]
This paper presents a welfare economic analysis of the benefits of various labor market policies in the Harris-Todaro labor market model. The policies considered are a policy of modern sector job creation, which I call modern sector enlargement (MSENL ...
Fields, Gary S
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Expanded production of labor-intensive crops increases agricultural employment
The production of labor-intensive fruit, vegetable and horticultural specialty crops increased in the 1990s, as did the employment of farmworkers: average annual employment or roughly the number of year-round equivalent jobs rose about ...
Akhtar Khan +2 more
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This thesis focuses on corporate governance and the executive labor market. Through my research, I unveil new mechanisms that in uence the relationship between shareholders, stakeholders and top executives; highlighting new determinants of the matching between top executives and firms.
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