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affect the amenities natives enjoy. I examine these possibilities on three sets of household data: The merged May and June …
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a household model estimated over the Korean cross-section data we find some weak evidence that a reduction in the …
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household production. Simulations using GMM estimates of a Stone-Geary utility function defined over time use suggest no effect … on household production in either country. Estimation of a household model shows only slight evidence that spouses shared …
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With rapidly declining fertility and increased longevity the age structure of the labor force in developing countries has changed rapidly. Changing relative supply of workers by age group, and by educational attainment, can have profound effects on labor costs. Their impacts on earnings have...
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We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over … imply that macroeconomic fluctuations can have substantial effects beyond those indicated by net employment changes at the …
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We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an empirical version of the model using personnel data from Fokker Aircraft that cover the path of layoffs and quits through its bankruptcy. We find that the firm learns about its...
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For many years California has required that most women receive time-and-a-half for hours of work beyond 8 in a given day. In 1980 this daily overtime penalty was extended to men. This change provides a unique opportunity to estimate the impact of an exogenous increase in the relative price of a...
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Most models of dynamic labor demand are written in terms of costs of adjusting employment (net adjustment costs). A few …
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relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the existence of substitution of employment across times of the day …
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mobility and salaries show, on the contrary, substantial positive effects of quantity, independent of quality. We test various …
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