One of the most inaonc~lusive debates in the history of American academic economics is the debate over the impact of structural shifts in the economy on employment conditions. Beginning in the late 1950’s Charles Killingsworth and others argued that rising unemployment rates were in part due to structural shifts in the economy.1 Eckstein, Heller, Knowles, Kalachek, and Gordon, among others, voc...

Low-skill workers are comparatively immobile. When labor demand slumps in a city, college-educated workers tend to relocate whereas non-college workers are disproportionately likely to remain to face declining wages and employment. A standard explanation of these facts is that mobility is more costly for low-skill workers. This paper proposes and tests an alternative explanation, which is that ...

The closer integration with Central and Eastern Europe and the emergence of China and India as producers for the world market has created concerns about the consequences for the labor markets in the West. The most commonly expressed concern is that the increased competition from low-wage countries leads to job losses in the high-wage economies in Western Europe and North America. Whereas this c...

"This theoretical discussion of the migration transition in Asia develops a framework to understand the turning point from labor exporter to labor importer experienced by the Asian NIES [newly industrialized economies] (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan). The author concludes that the NIEs' demand for labor curve shifted rapidly, primarily due to export-led growth of a labor-intensive cha...

most regions of iran are confronted with inadequate supply and excessive demand of water in agriculture sector mainly resulting from a high difference between water providing cost and its price. coping with such a challenge needs to determine the water price based on the economic principles and its value in agricultural production. the aim of this study was to determine the economic value of th...