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Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program: Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme
public works program National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme NREGA NREGS India regression discontinuity design
2012/10/22
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National...
Active Labor Market Programs: Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?
active labor market programs short work subsidies training workfare activation sanctions job search assistance intermediation counseling cost-effectiveness
2012/10/22
This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their main objectives and their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a cr...
The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960
employment protection legislation labor market institutions reforms
2012/10/22
This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system a...
Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
central exit exams earnings unemployment Germany
2012/10/22
Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on uni...
Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries
labor force participation rates structural change stationarity
2012/10/23
This paper shows that the structural breaks are an important characteristic of the monthly labor force participation rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogen...
Fairness Considerations in Labor Union Wage Setting: A Theoretical Analysis
labor unions fairness wage rigidity wage flexibility wage stickiness wage-setting curve wage-setting process unemployment
2012/10/22
We consider a theoretical model in which unions not only take the outside option into account, but also base their wage-setting decisions on an internal reference, called the fairness reference. Wage ...
The German Labor Market after the Great Recession: Successful Reforms and Future Challenges
unemployment labor force participation labor supply benefit systems public policy
2012/10/22
The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – wh...
Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil
female labor force participation trade liberalization Brazil
2012/10/22
While there is a large literature analyzing the distributional impacts of trade reforms across the income or skill distribution, very little is known about the gender effects of trade reforms. This pa...
Willingness to Accept Equals Willingness to Pay for Labor Market Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life
willingness to pay willingness to accept value of statistical life VSL CFOI panel data PSID
2012/10/22
Our research clarifies the conceptual linkages among willingness to pay for additional safety, willingness to accept less safety, and the value of statistical life (VSL). We present econometric estima...
The Labor Market Consequences of Adverse Financial Shocks
financial shocks matching Okun’s elasticities
2012/10/22
The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that financial shocks do translate into the labor markets. In this paper we first document...
Time vs. Money: The Supply of Voluntary Labor and Charitable Donations across Europe
private philanthropy charitable contribution voluntary organizations
2012/10/23
Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why individuals spend time and money to the charity. Assuming that volunteeri...
Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
immigration unemployment wages labor markets panel data comparative studies
2012/10/23
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare stat...
Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results
household labor supply elasticity taxation Europe US
2012/10/23
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted...
Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis
GED high school dropouts
2012/10/23
We evaluate the labor-market returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using state administrative data. We develop a fuzzy regression discontinuity (FRD) method to account for the...
Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China
migration migrant networks consumption poverty wealth rural China
2012/10/23
In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant i...