Labour Economics
Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour. Labour is a commodity that is supplied by labourers in exchange for a wage paid by demanding firms. Because these labourers exist as parts of a social, institutional, or political system, labour economics is often regarded as a sociology or political science.Labour markets or job markets function through the interaction of workers and employers. Labour economics looks at the suppliers of labour services (workers) and the demanders of labour services (employers), and attempts to understand the resulting pattern of wages, employment, and income. These patterns …
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C.D. Howe Institute · 17 April 2024
Skuterud is a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo, director of the Canadian Labour Economics Forum and a fellow-in-residence of the C. …
University of Waterloo, director of the Canadian Labour Economics Forum and a fellow-in-residence of the C.D …
IFS: Institute for Fiscal Studies · 15 April 2024 English
Much of the research on earnings instability over the past three decades owes to the intellectual contributions of Robert Moffitt, who with his longtime collaborator, Peter Gottschalk, established the key …
Couples: How Important is Assortative Matching? Labour Economics 48:168-182. Jensen, Shane T., and Stephen … Volatility in America: Evidence from Matched CPS. Labour Economics 18:742-754. Ziliak, James P., Charles Hokayem …
IFS: Institute for Fiscal Studies · 15 April 2024 English
Turning to the parameter estimates in the wage equation, we see that wage gaps of race- ethnicity minority groups tend to be most pronounced in the bottom half of the …
Graduating from College in a Bad Economy,” Labour Economics 17(2): 3-3-316. Kambourov, Gueorgui, and Iourii …
World Bank Group · 2 April 2024 English
Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on …
Kautz. 2012. “Hard Evidence on Soft Skills.” Labour Economics 19(4): 451-464. Hjort, Jonas, Iyer, Vinayak …
IADB: Inter-American Development Bank · 2 April 2024 Spanish
Este documento presenta las experiencias de mujeres madres beneficiarias del subsidio de cuidado de niños menores de 5 años que otorgó el Programa de Apoyo al Empleo II (PAE II) …
of a French reform of childcare subsidies. Labour Economics, 36, 99-111. Heath, R, A Bernhardt, G Borker … labor supply under a rationing mechanism. Labour Economics, 55, 1-17. …
Australian Council of Trade Unions · 28 March 2024 English
Profit growth has been solid and broad-based in the non-mining sector and across both large and small businesses, even in the face of a slowing economy. [...] Given the nil …
wage and the wage distribution in Portugal’, Labour Economics, Vol. 85, December. 255 Gould E and DeCourcy …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 27 March 2024 English
We study the effect of mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare industry workers adopted in 2021 in the United States. There are long-standing worker shortages in the U.S. healthcare industry, …
Evidence from continuing coverage mandates. Labour Economics, 78:102236. McGarry, B. E., Gandhi, A. D. … demic: Explanations, extent, and effects. Labour Economics, 72:102060. Willard-Grace, R., Knox, M., Huang …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 27 March 2024 English
Ways of leaving the labor force has been an understudied aspect of labor market outcomes. Labor market institutions such as occupational licensing may influence how individuals transition to retirement. When …
and Opportunities for Phased Retirement.” Labour Economics 17 (6): 1010–1021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j …
CEDLAS: Centre De Studios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales · 26 March 2024 English
Figure 1 depicts the unconditional correlation between the change in poverty rate (FGT0) and the change in exports between 2000 and 2006 at the level of Chilean local labor markets …
Evidence from Chilean Local Labor Markets,” Labour Economics, 73, 102075. Costa, F., Garred, J., and Pessoa …
CEDLAS: Centre De Studios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales · 26 March 2024
Figure 1 depicts the unconditional correlation between the change in poverty rate (FGT0) and the change in exports between 2000 and 2006 at the level of Chilean local labor markets …
Evidence from Chilean Local Labor Markets,” Labour Economics, 73, 102075. Costa, F., Garred, J., and Pessoa …
