A vast literature in labor economics has studied the relationship between local labor demand shifts and the outcomes of the working age population. This literature has ignored the impacts that these shocks have on older individuals, though there are reasons to believe that the effects are not uniform by age. Using data from the Census and the Health and Retirement Study, we measure the effects ...

Services. The opinions expressed in the paper are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of DHHS or the Institute. Abstract This paper investigates whether the parameters of labor demand functions are sensitive to alternative methods of estimation. 'The assumption that the production technology is of the Generalized Leontief type implies that, the demand system can ...

In this paper I estimate the labor demand response of Hungarian exporting firms to real exchange rate movements. The use of firm level export/import data enables me to separate two channels through which the exchange rate affects labor demand. First, a real depreciation raises the forint-equivalent price of foreign competitors, thereby boosting demand for the firm’s export and, hence, the firm’...

the main logic behind the demand for life insurance is to hedge against the labor income uncertainty due to premature death of a wage earner. in other words, life insurance is the device by which this labor income uncertainty is handled. for insurers, the uncertainty arises from the lack of knowledge about the age of death of the wage earner. this paper attempts to derive life insurance demand ...

The Demand for Labor: An Analysis Using Matched EmployerEmployee Data from the German LIAB. Will the High Unskilled Worker Own-Wage Elasticity Please Stand Up? This paper uses matched employee-employer LIAB data to provide panel estimates of the structure of labor demand in Germany, 1993-2002, distinguishing between highly skilled, skilled, and unskilled labor and between the manufacturing and ...