Agricultural Unskilled Labor Mobility: Does It Matter?

Social Mobility : What is it and why does it matter ?

Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor ?

Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution – the inexperienced and the old – have more chance of job failure (mismatch). Recruits’ average education should then increase and the standard deviation of starting age decrease when strict employment protection raises hiring and firing costs. We test the model using annual distri...

Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?

Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor? Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution – the inexperienced and the old – have more chance of job failure (mismatch). Recruits’ average education should then increase and the standard deviation of starting age decrease when strict employment protection rai...

IT Doesn’t Matter, Does It

Ping Wang: In a recent conversation, the CIO of an automobile company told me that his company is cutting IT spending “across the board.” However, the marketing department really needs to buy a CRM package to obtain the online customer interfacing capability. When his IT department proposed this purchase to the board, it was rejected because the purchase was considered unnecessary IT spending. ...

Does IT Matter ?

he or she is an executive of uncommon intelligence and curiosity: the brightest CEO you know or can imagine, perhaps. We like to pretend that our ideal reader has chartered us to prepare a briefing every month. On the agenda, we've been told, should be three kinds of items. First, our reader says, bring me important new ideas, research, or insights: " Boss, here's something you should know. " S...