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After The Recovery: Help Needed: The Coming Labor Shortage And How People In Encore Careers Can Help Solve It, Barry Bluestone, Mark Melnik
After The Recovery: Help Needed: The Coming Labor Shortage And How People In Encore Careers Can Help Solve It, Barry Bluestone, Mark Melnik
Barry Bluestone
No abstract provided.
Reflections On My Immersion In India, Gary S. Fields
Reflections On My Immersion In India, Gary S. Fields
Gary S Fields
[Excerpt] Kalavati’s family derives all of its money from labor earnings. Her husband long ago worked for the Cannon textile mills when they were still making bath towels in India. Sixteen years earlier, the mill shut down, moving to a place where labor was even cheaper, and her husband lost his job. For fifteen years, he did not work. Then finally, he got a job where he works at night. He does not tell Kalavati where he works or how much he earns, nor does he contribute his earnings to the day-to-day expenses. (He does contribute to interest payments to …
The Employee Free Act Choice: Economic Consequences And Political Implications, Peter Dreier
The Employee Free Act Choice: Economic Consequences And Political Implications, Peter Dreier
Peter Dreier
No abstract provided.
A Contribution To Health Capital Theory, Titus Galama
A Contribution To Health Capital Theory, Titus Galama
Titus Galama
I present a theory of the demand for health, health investment and longevity, building on the human capital framework for health and addressing limitations of existing models. I predict a negative correlation between health investment and health, that the health of wealthy and educated individuals declines more slowly and that they live longer, that current health status is a function of the initial level of health and the histories of prior health investments made, that health investment rapidly increases near the end of life and that length of life is finite as a result of limited life-time resources (the budget …