A number of authors have investigated whether aggregate and! or local labor market conditions affect college enrollment, hut the results across studies are very inconsistent. There are two shortcomings in the previous studies that may explain the weak correlation between labor market opportunities and college enrollment. First, we will use the unique structure of the HS & B to construct unemplo...

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This paper reviews economic studies on rural-urban migration issues in China. The review focuses on three issues: firstly, the explanations for the rural to urban migration, secondly, the interaction between migration and labor market evolution, with special attention to labor market segregation, labor market flexibility and wage differentials, and lastly suggestions for further research topics.

The phenomenon of the shortage of rural workers is a response of labor market to rapid export growth and economic growth after China became a WTO member. It not only indicates a transition of China’s rural surplus labor forces from unlimited supply to limited surplus, but also highlights the urgent need for an integrated national labor market to solve the structural issue of segregated local la...

The paper integrates marriage matching with the collective model of spousal labor supplies with full risk sharing. It derives observable implications of how marriage market conditions a¤ect spousal labor supplies. In addition to sex ratio which is an indirect measure, it provides a direct measure of changes in marriage market conditions. The framework also clari…es the identifying assumptions n...

Labor market policies succeed or fail at least in part depending on how well they reflect or account for behavioral responses. Insights from behavioral economics, which allow for realistic deviations from standard economic assumptions about behavior, have consequences for the design and functioning of labor market policies. We review key implications of behavioral economics related to procrasti...

We show that the impact of globalization on growth and wages crucially depends on the labor market structures of the countries involved. We contrast bargaining and perfect competition. Under perfect capital markets, convergence of capital and income per capita always occurs despite di®erent labor market structures. However, di®erent labor market structures prevent convergence of the income shar...

This paper estimates the macroeconomic effect of labor market programs on labor force participation. Labor market programs could counteract business-cycle variation in the participation rate that is due to the discouraged-worker effect, and they could prevent labor force outflow. An equation that determines the participation rate is estimated with GMM, using panel data (1986-1998) for Sweden’s ...

Mexico has engaged in many trade agreements that have left unaffected internal competition, being one of the most trade-opened countries in the world is also one of the most restrictive regarding product market competition. For developing countries, this is a field to study that still need to be undertaken. This paper relates informality in the Mexican labor markets outcomes with market competi...

Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidence on German Labor Market Flows Using a retrospective monthly calendarium of individuals’ major economic activities, this paper characterizes the monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment, unemployment, and out-of-thelabor-force for the German labor market bet...