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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 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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Vacancy Dynamics and Labor Market Efficiency in the Dutch Labor Market [PDF]
Growth and Change, 1997 ABSTRACT This paper focuses on cyclical and regional variations in vacancy dynamics in labor markets with persistent imbalances between demand and supply. In particular the so‐called matching approach is used to investigate labor market efficiency across regions and over the business cycle.
Gorter, C. +3 more
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Expanded production of labor-intensive crops increases agricultural employment
California Agriculture, 2004 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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Labor market access and labor market outcomes for urban youth [PDF]
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1991 This paper examines the importance of job access in explaining labor market outcomes for youth. The work sets forth a broader definition of 'access' which emphasizes the information links provided by social networks. Empirical analysis, based upon micro data from the public use sample and upon metropolitan wide aggregates, indicates that employment ...
O'Regan, Katherine M., Quigley, John M.
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Decomposing international gender test score differences
Journal for Labour Market Research, 2018 In this paper, we decompose worldwide PISA mathematics and reading scores. While mathematics scores are still tilted towards boys, girls have a larger advantage in reading over boys.
Farzana Munir, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
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Civilian labor force estimates for counties & cities with population over 50,000.
Description based on: Feb. 2008; title from PDF caption (viewed on Apr. 15, 2008).; Harvested from the web on 4/15/08Labor force data for Ohio, each county and some major cities.
Ohio. Bureau of Labor Market Information.
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Activation by the ‘Magic Wand’ – Does it Work?
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2023 Can activation programs be considered a ‘magic wand’ that triggers a change of incentives, with little or no costs, and produces real gains in terms of improved job-finding rates? The paper reviews the literature on the experience of OECD countries with
Matija Vodopivec +2 more
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Flexicurity of the Labor Market through the Formal/Informal Duality, in the Context of Globalization [PDF]
Revista de Management Comparat International, 2018 The new stage of globalization, marked by deeper integration of work, creates new opportunities, both in terms of economic growth and job creation, but at the same time creates new challenges and problems in the labor market, such as: increasing labor ...
Cristian MARINESCU
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The Labor Market in the Great Recession [PDF]
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Working Paper Series, 2010 This paper documents the adjustment of the labor market during the recession, and places it in the broader context of previous postwar downturns. What emerges is a picture of labor market dynamics with three key recurring themes: 1. From the perspective of a wide range of labor market outcomes, the 2007 recession represents the deepest downturn in the ...
BART HOBIJN +2 more
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Human Capital Productivity: A New Concept for Productivity Analysis [PDF]
International Productivity Monitor, 2012 The concept of human capital, defined as the discounted value of future earnings, has a long history in economics. But human capital has never been directly linked to productivity.
Barbara M. Fraumeni
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