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The margins of labor cost adjustment : survey evidence from European firms [PDF]
Firms have multiple options at the time of adjusting their wage bills. However, previous literature has mainly focused on base wages. This paper broadens the analysis beyond downward rigidity in base wages by investigating the use of other margins of ...
Babecky, Jan +5 more
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The creative potential of the labor phenomenon
Epistemological Studies in Philosophy, Social and Political Sciences, 2017 This article analyzes the fundamental conditions for solving problems of individual and social integrity. Status of cultural and spiritual crisis modern society and human potential deformation actualize the need to find the underlying factors solutions existential problems.
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Cobb-Douglas Production Function: The Case of a Converging Economy [PDF]
The Cobb-Douglas production function is often used to analyse the supply-side performance and measurement of a country’s productive potential. This functional form, however, includes the assumption of a constant share of labor in output, which may be too
Dana Hájková, Jaromír Hurník
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Север и рынок: формирование экономического порядкаOne of the key challenges in achieving sustainable regional development is the effective utilization of labor potential within a territory. Major disparities in labor potential are observed across regions, driven by factors such as natural and climatic ...
Marina N. Kuznetsova +1 more
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Globalization, Women’s Economic Rights and Forced Labor [PDF]
Globalization critics are concerned that increased trade openness and foreign direct investment exacerbate existing economic disadvantages of women and foster conditions for forced labor.
Eric Neumayer, Indra de Soysa
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Employment growth and labor force participation: how many jobs are enough? [PDF]
This paper demonstrates that, because of declining labor force participation rates, the usual estimates of job creation needed to keep unemployment in check are too high.
Julie L. Hotchkiss
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Working with children? the probability of mothers exiting the workforce at time of birth [PDF]
Recent trends in the labor force participation of women have brought much public attention to the issue of women opting out. This paper explores the decision of working women to exit the labor market at a time of major transition—the birth of a child ...
Julie L. Hotchkiss +2 more
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The Status of Labor-Saving Mechanization in Fruits and Vegetables [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to examine the status of labor-saving mechanization in U.S. fruit and vegetable harvesting. Fruit and vegetable harvest mechanization has several potential advantages: reduced harvest costs, eliminate problems associated ...
Wallace E. Huffman
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Symposium on Labour Force Participation in Canada in the 1990s: An Introduction and Overview [PDF]
A major development in the Canadian labour market in the 1990s has been the decline in labour force participation. This issue of Canadian Business Economics consists of a symposium of articles that explore this issue. The idea for this symposium came out
Andrew Sharpe +3 more
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An analysis of women's return-to-work decisions following first birth [PDF]
Women's labor force participation rate has increased sharply over the last two decades. The increase has been particularly dramatic for married women with young children suggesting that women are spending less time out of the labor force for child ...
Lisa Barrow
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