labor market
RSS labor marketLabor Market Effects of Population Aging
White Paper This paper analyzes effects of population aging on the labor market and determines their broad implications for public policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. [03 Jul 2008]
Labor Market Flexibility and Investment in Human Capital
White Paper In this paper a simple model of human capital accumulation is used to show how labor market rigidities that distort the signals that help individuals choose the optimal mix of human capital components. [03 Jul 2008]
Human Capital, Market Imperfections, and Labor Reallocation in Transition
White Paper This paper investigates how human capital and factor market imperfections affect households' decisions on their labor use and reallocation in transition countries. In the second part of the paper a unique dataset of Hungarian rural households based... [03 Jul 2008]
The Interactions of Workers and Firms in the Low-Wage Labor Market
White Paper This paper presents an analysis of workers who persistently have low earnings in the labor market over a period of three or more years. Some of these workers manage to escape from this low-earning status over subsequent years, while many do not. [03 Jul 2008]
Labor Market's in the 21st Century: Skills and Mobility Proceedings of a Joint United States and European Union Conference
White Paper Growth theory suggests that human capital is one of the prime determinants of labor productivity. Many factors can contribute to productivity improvements, including high levels of enterprise and innovation, high levels of domestic competition... [03 Jul 2008]
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare
White Paper Between 1990 and 1999, real spending on the earned income tax credit (EITC) increased to $31.9 billion from $9.6 billion (in 1999 dollars). It is by far the largest cash or near-cash antipoverty policy in the United States. [03 Jul 2008]
Worker Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market: The Importance of Good Jobs
White Paper The need to improve the earnings of low-wage workers remains a challenge for current welfare policy. One traditional method of improving earnings has been to educate and train workers. This paper focuses on another method of improving earnings... [03 Jul 2008]
The Fragile Families Study: Social Policies and Labor Markets in 7 Cities
White Paper This paper provides information on the policy and labor market contexts in the first seven cities in which survey data have been collected, as well as a general framework for understanding how different policy and labor market regimes may be... [03 Jul 2008]
Gender Versus Ethnic Wage Differentials Among Professionals: Evidence From Israel
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labor market using data from the 1983 Israeli census and correcting for selectivity at the state of entrance into the occupation. [03 Jul 2008]
Outsourcing: Managing the Relationship for Maximum Results
White Paper Globalization, mergers and acquisitions, the tight labor market, the tech boom, and then the global business slowdown - the list of business pressures facing companies in just the past few years seems overwhelming. [03 Jul 2008]
Without Any Promotion, Onestar Communications Signs Up 500 Customers for Access within A Few Weeks of Launch, With a Solution from KSA
White Paper As a result of robust growth, OneStar needed to hire a large number of customer service representatives - a difficult prospect in today's competitive labor market. OneStar Communications, Inc.provides market-leading integrated telecommunications... [03 Jul 2008]
Policies to Foster Human Capital
White Paper In response to the new labor market for skills in which the real wages paid to high-skilled and highly educated workers have increased while the real wages paid to low skilled and less educated workers have decreased, there is renewed interest in... [03 Jul 2008]
Entrepreneurship and Earnings Among Young Adults From Disadvantaged Families
White Paper Academicians and policymakers have argued that entrepreneurship provides a route out of poverty and an alternative to unemployment or discrimination in the labor market. Existing research, however, provides little evidence from longitudinal data on... [03 Jul 2008]
The Dynamics of Worker Reallocation: A Markov Approach
White Paper This paper begins by estimating the transition probabilities of different groups of workers - by sex, age and earnings status - within and between industries, as well as into and out of the labor market, over a nine-year period, controlling for... [03 Jul 2008]
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in France: Is France More Mobile Than the US?
White Paper The paper analyzes the elasticity of child's earnings in adulthood to father labor earnings, using five waves from the INSEE Formation-Qualification-Profession labor market surveys, covering the period 1964 to 1994. [03 Jul 2008]
