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The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2007

in cohort size affect real earnings in Europe. This is an important question in the light of widespread population ageing … are more sensible to changes in cohort size in Southern Europe, which points to a lower degree of substitutability between … Europe is in line with the higher employment protection that its workers enjoy, at least compared to the workers located in …

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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys

Gasparini, Leonardo - In: Económica LI (2005) 1-2, pp. 29-57

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household income inequality, we also report results on aggregate...

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Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

The U.S. workforce is substantially older and better-educated than it was at the end of the 1970s. The typical worker in 2010 was seven years older than in 1979. In 2010, over one-third of US workers had a four-year college degree or more, up from just one-fifth in 1979. Given that older and...

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Bad Jobs on the Rise

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

The decline in the economy’s ability to create good jobs is related to deterioration in the bargaining power of workers, especially those at the middle and the bottom of the pay scale. The restructuring of the U.S. labor market – including the decline in the inflation-adjusted value of the...

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Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

Over the past three decades, the “human capital” of the employed black workforce has increased enormously. In 1979, only one-in-ten (10.4 percent) black workers had a four-year college degree or more. By 2011, more than one in four (26.2 percent) had a college education or more. Over the...

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Making Jobs Good

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...

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Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression

Bellou, Andriana; Cardia, Emanuela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

s and 1950s as economic conditions improved, decreasing wages and reducing work incentives for younger women. Its …

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Background Study on Labour Market and Employment in Bulgaria

Beleva, Iskra; Tzanov, Vasil; Noncheva, Teodora; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

A factual and descriptive analysis of the employment situation in Bulgaria showed that the transition to a market economy has led to a substantial reduction of employment. The economic restructuring has begun in 1990 has proved very difficult, and the privatization of the large industrial...

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Determinants of Business Failure: A Time Series Analysis

Assadian, Afsaneh; Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1989

This paper seeks to empirically analyze the determinants of the business failure rate, i.e., the proportion of businesses that fail. This issue is of obvious importance due to its ramifications for resource allocation, especially that of financial capital, physical capital, and labor. This...

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