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This study represents a first effort to systematically describe the experience of immigrant women in the U.S. labor market over the past thirty years.
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This paper addresses the interplay between health and labor market behavior in the later part of the working life.
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Uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey — Youth to examine the dynamics of the labor market experience of young people entering the labor market.
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Family ties and labor markets in the United States and Brazil
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Trends and future directions in youth labor markets : implications for Army recruiting
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The theory suggests an empirical test of whether surgeons create demand for surgery.
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This paper analyzes cross-national similarities and differences in order to determine how labor markets react to and affect technical change and productivity growth. Long-term employment, high investment in training, compensation for firm-specific sk...
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This paper presents an empirical analysis of the employment adjustments of the daily newspaper industry in response to a major long-term structural change in the demand for labor that has occurred over the past quarter century due to new technologies...
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Urban development policies have several objectives with respect to local labor markets. The total number of jobs created by an urban project is certainly important. This Note focuses on more detailed labor market effects.
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Investigates borrowing behavior of agricultural households in less-developed countries. The theoretical analysis employs a life-cycle utility-maximizing approach emphasizing (1) regular participation of farm households in labor markets; (2) differen...
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There are several competing explanations for the existence of long-term jobs; the specific human capital hypothesis and, more recently, the agency and self-selection models. To date, no attempt has been made to distinguish empirically between them. ...
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Uses time series data on U.S. labor market variables by sex and single years of age and on fertility, to estimate a neoclassical model of the aggregate labor market. The estimated model conforms well with evidence from studies with microdata. The mo...
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Examines labor market conditions in five communities of rural Guatemala, focusing on differing roles of women and children in the labor market. The data describe economic activities in 1974 of 1000 families in four rural villages in which subsistence...
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Outlines the effects that the military has on youth labor force participation and the youth job market, and concludes that the military's demand for labor is an important determinant of both the size and composition of the youth labor force.
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Examines earnings of synthetic cohorts contained in the Current Population Surveys (CPS) for each year from 1968 to 1975. The CPS data are useful to test for the importance of local labor markets because individuals can be assigned to markets by cal...
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Examines the job search behavior of a sample of low income central city residents from the Baltimore, Maryland SMSA. The specific model which is used in this study draws on work of Lippman and McCall and incorporates concepts of spatial separation o...
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An economic framework, which combines the theories of human capital and internal labor markets within a probabilistic matrix, is developed to analyze teacher mobility. Among the implications of this framework that received confirmation when tested w...
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Reasons for Income and Employment Differentials in Chicago.
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Investigation of the relationships between the structure of internal labor markets and the mobility, experience, and income of workers. Industries are classified into three types of structures according to the degree of firm and industry mobility. ...
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This paper presents a method for estimating the elasticity of demand for labor with output held constant.
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