We study the restructuring of labor force after mergers and acquisitions. Overall is large. Net employment targets declines by more than half within two years acquisitions relative to a matched sample, concentrated in that close all establishments. There substantial increase employee turnover. place our analysis framework which acquirers seek growth options from provide managerial capabilities ...

Using nationally representative survey data on 11,505 labor force participants, we examine the use and implementation of noncompete agreements employee outcomes associated with these provisions. Approximately 18 percent participants are bound by noncompetes, 38 having agreed to at least one in past. Noncompetes more likely be found high-skill, high-paying jobs, but they also common low-skill, l...

Continued industrialization in China and increase in its agricultural productivity imply that surplus rural workers will to be attracted into non-agricultural production activities and, consequently, will have the opportunity to increase their off-farm income. Studying the structure of the rural labor force and its characteristics is important for evaluating its migration potential into non-agr...

This article utilizes the 1969, 1971, and 1973 waves of the Longitudinal Retirement History Study (LRHS) to examine stopping work by working wives of respondents. Different patterns of labor-force participation reveal that younger wives of respondents were more likely to work than were older wives. Most wives did not reenter the labor force after leaving it. The determinants of stopping or cont...

This paper seeks to address the problems of childcare scarcity, declining fertility rates and work-family conflict faced by the growing female labor force in Japan. Japan’s total fertility rate has been declining since the 1970s and it fell below the replacement level of 1.3 in 2003. Since the 1990s, the Japanese government has implemented pro-natal policies such as childcare market deregulatio...

Introduction Recent studies of the Current Population Survey by Tucker and Kojetin (1997) and Dixon (2001) showed that unemployment rates were related to unit nonresponse in the CPS. Since households are in sample for 8 months in the CPS (over a 16-month period), there is an opportunity for households to leave or return to the sample. However, the number of “converts”, (households that agree to...