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Labor market access and labor market outcomes for urban youth [PDF]
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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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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Decomposing international gender test score differences
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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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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Activation by the ‘Magic Wand’ – Does it Work?
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?
Matija Vodopivec +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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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 7/23/08Labor force data for Ohio, each county and some major cities.
Ohio. Bureau of Labor Market Information.
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The Labor Market in the Great Recession [PDF]
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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Comparative Analysis of the Explanation of Labor Market Institutions from the Perspective of Neoclassicists and Institutionalists: guidelines for labor market policies [PDF]
The decisive role of the labor market as one of the areas of distribution of production inputs on the one hand, and the emphasis on the dignity and importance of human labor as drivers of social development, on the other hand, are of great importance to ...
Hossein Sarabadani, Alireza Chitsazian
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Social Interactions in the Labor Market [PDF]
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group average. The demand for a good may also
Grodner, Andrew +2 more
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