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Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

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Health and Work at Older Ages : Using Mortality to Assess the Capacity to Work across Countries

Milligan, Kevin S. - 2012

Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of...

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The early retirement burden : assessing the costs of the continued prevalence of early retirement in OECD countries

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The impact of growth, labour cost and working time on employment : lessons from the French experience

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Mismatch and Assimilation

Wang, Ping - 2018

Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...

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Cheap Thrills : the Price of Leisure and the Global Decline in Work Hours

Kopytov, Alexandr - 2020

The real price of recreation goods and services has fallen dramatically over the last century. At the same time, hours per worker have also been on a steady decline. As recreation goods make leisure time more enjoyable, we investigate if the fall in their price has contributed to the decline in...

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Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...

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Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change : International Evidence

Berman, Eli - 1997

Demand for less skilled workers decreased dramatically in the US and in other developed countries over the past two decades. We argue that pervasive skill-biased technological change rather than increased trade with the developing world is the principal culprit. The pervasiveness of this...

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What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology

Acemoglu, Daron - 2012

Goldin and Katz's <i>The Race between Education and Technology</i> is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the 20th century. This essay reviews the...

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