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Labor Regulations and European Private Equity

Bozkaya, Ant; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms....

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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Tekin, Erdal; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Greve, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual’s labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...

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The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries

Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam; Kessler, Judd B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

incarceration data. In assessing the three rationales, we find that: (1) SYEP participation causes average earnings and the … probability of employment to increase in the year of program participation, with modest contemporaneous crowdout of other earnings … and employment; (2) SYEP participation causes a moderate decrease in average earnings for three years following the …

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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries

Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We study the effect of a firm winning an additional H-1B visa on the firm’s outcomes, by comparing winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries. We match administrative data on the participants in these lotteries to the universe of approved U.S. patents, and to...

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This Job is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

Autor, David; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Despite indications that people skills are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that people skills are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including...

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Skill Biased Financial Development: Education, Wages and Occupations in the U.S. Financial Sector

PHILIPPON, Thomas; Reshef, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Over the past 60 years, the U.S. financial sector has grown from 2.3% to 7.7% of GDP. While the growth in the share of value added has been fairly linear, it hides a dramatic change in the composition of skills and occupations. In the early 1980s, the financial sector started paying higher wages...

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Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and School Enrollment

Neumark, David; Wascher, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers...

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Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to establish cooperation, and at the same time directness, to communicate in an unambiguous way. The...

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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Various theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs throughout the world. Using data from the largest randomized control trial ever conducted on entrepreneurship training, we examine the validity of such motivations and find that...

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