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2012

Labor supply

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Injecting Intelligence, Nirmalya Kumar, Phanish Puranam Sep 2012

Injecting Intelligence, Nirmalya Kumar, Phanish Puranam

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

India's highly qualified workforce is enabling it to lead the way in process innovation. Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam examine how Indian companies inject intelligence into the often mundane.

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Empirical Consequences Of Comparable Worth, Ronald G. Ehrenberg Aug 2012

Empirical Consequences Of Comparable Worth, Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

[Excerpt] To help focus subsequent debate, this paper presents a nontechnical survey of the small but growing empirical literature by economists on the consequences of comparable worth. I discuss in turn studies of the consequences of comparable worth on the male-female earnings gap, of its potential to affect adversely the employment of women, of its effects on the labor supply and occupational mobility of women, and of its effects on women and their families as a group. The survey is critical in nature and points to areas in which research is needed.

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The Anatomy Of The Aggregate Labor Supply Elasticity, Riccardo Fiorito, Giulio Zanella Apr 2012

The Anatomy Of The Aggregate Labor Supply Elasticity, Riccardo Fiorito, Giulio Zanella

riccardo fiorito

Aggregate Frisch elasticity of labor supply can greatly exceeed the corresponding individual parameter. We show this using PSID microdata to be compared with an aggregate based on the same units. The corresponding Macurdy equations confirm a standard micro elasticity of about 0.1 and a much larger aggregate elasticity ranging from 1.1 to 1.7. There is no conflict since the micro elasticity reflects only the intensive margin while the macro reflects also the much more volatile extensive margin. These findings suggest that micro-evidence is not a benchmark to assess how large the Frisch elasticity is in a model of the aggregate …

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Labor Economics, George R. Boyer, Robert Smith Feb 2012

Labor Economics, George R. Boyer, Robert Smith

George R. Boyer

The authors hypothesize that most labor economists "sooner or later had to incorporate at least the appearance of institutional concerns in their papers to avoid indigestion whenever lunching with colleagues outside the field of economics" They add: "If the new interests of modern labor economics are in fact driven by the imperatives of science, then the institutionalist and the neoclassical approaches may well synthesize".

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Work Incentives And The Food Stamp Program, Hilary Hoynes, Diane Schanzenbach Jan 2012

Work Incentives And The Food Stamp Program, Hilary Hoynes, Diane Schanzenbach

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Labor supply theory makes strong predictions about how the introduction or expansion of a social welfare program impacts work effort. Although there is a large literature on the work incentive effects of AFDC and the EITC, relatively little is known about the work incentive effects of the Food Stamp Program and none of the existing literature is based on quasi-experimental methods. We use the cross-county introduction of the program in the 1960s and 1970s to estimate the impact of the program on the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply, earnings, and family cash income. Consistent with theory, we find …

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Including Jobs In Benefit-Cost Analysis, Timothy Bartik Dec 2011

Including Jobs In Benefit-Cost Analysis, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

No abstract provided.

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