The results suggest that, on average, sector mobility costs are higher than regional mobility costs. The costs of moving across sectors and regions are higher than the costs of moving across only sectors or only regions. In poorer countries, workers face higher mobility costs. The paper provides...
In fact, we can see that the two moments were indeed very much correlated at the time (Fig. 2), so that deteriorating labor markets had (on average) been accompanied by diverging labor markets across countries. In Demertzis and Hughes Hallett (1998) we made a formal analysis and an ...
Grandparents, and in particular grandmothers, are an important source of informal child care for their grandchildren in most developed countries. The liter
In the United States, nonfarm business sector unit labor costs increased by 1.9 percent in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the previous quarter. The data are seasonally adjusted at annual rates. Unit labor costs describe the relationship between compensation per hour and ...
The factors that drove labor market tightness also varied across countries. Unemployment rates in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States came down from highs in 2010, while Australia never had very high unemployment. Italy continued to have a relatively high rate of...
For the first time since the 1990s, labor unrest has spread across the country... SA Greene,GB Robertson - 《Communist & Post Communist Studies》 被引量: 5发表: 2010年 Vocationalisation of Secondary Education in Nigeria: Issues, Challenges and Prospects. unrest among the youth's accounts for...
(2SLS) regressions using two instrumental variables associated with labor costs but not directly related to a firm's innovation output. The first instrumental variable is thechangein minimum wage at the city level and the second one, following Chang et al. (2015), is the labor cost across ...
Next, we more directly test the channel through which LCs are operating by using differences in worker protection across countries as operationalized above. The results are reported in Table 2. The LC variable by itself becomes negative and insignificant, so suggesting again than on average LCs do...
aA long time ago people thought that the sun went round the earth. In some countries people even said that the sun was a god(神). They thought the god drove across the sky each day on a golden horse. Now we know the earth goes round the sun. It takes the earth a year to go al...
We document large differences in trend changes in hours worked across OECD countries between 1956 and 2004. We assess the extent to which these changes are... L Ohanian,A Raffo,R Rogerson - 《Journal of Monetary Economics》 被引量: 531发表: 2006年 ...