Showing 1 - 10 of 269
A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment … new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle and a phasing out that is more … and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455767
cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456072
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480749
The problem of economic development,' as Lucas (1988) states it, is the problem of accounting for the observed diversity in levels and rates of growth of per capita income across countries and across time. We study conditions under which capital mobility and labor mobility (two seemingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471679
distribution of incomes and employment, to consider explicit measures of well-being, which have been shown to depend on far more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467742
How does growing international financial diversification affect firm-level and aggregate labor shares? We study this question using a novel framework of firm labor choice in the face of aggregate risk. The theory implies a cross-section of labor risk premia and labor shares that appear as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250185
This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they …. Firms' reactions also motivate a new offshoring measure - produced- good imports - that is readily observed in most firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482035
We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers from around the world compete for jobs that can be done remotely. We document that, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660114
The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global … perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464361
offshoring in the short run and in the long run (when technology levels are endogenous). The short-run analysis shows that when … research efforts in response to increased offshoring. In particular, the rich country always gains from increased fragmentation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465450