Key indicators of Russian labor market analysis

Macroeconomic and Labor Market Impact of Russian Immigration in Israel

From 1990 to 1997, over 710 thousand Russian Jews emigrated to Israel, increasing Israel’s working-age population by 15 percent. This paper argues that a canonical onesector neoclassical growth model explains both the short run and the medium run response of Israel’s economy to this shock. Specifically, we show that average effective wages of native Israelis fell and the return to capital incre...

Assessing the Predictive Power of Labor-Market Indicators of Inflation

This paper examines two different measures of wages as predicators of prices in a vector errorcorrection framework using quarterly data for the U.S. for the period from 1947.Q1 through 2008.Q1. Based on cointegration and a series of exogeneity tests, it is found that: 1) there is a stable, long-run relationship between the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the Personal Consumption Expenditure Defl...

What have we learned? Assessing labor market institutions and indicators

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Cow/Calf Analysis: Key Indicators of Profitability

Labor Market Analysis for Developing Countries

This paper is about analyzing labor markets in developing countries, searching for both improved understanding and greater policy relevance. Following a five-part policy evaluation framework, the highlights of labor markets in developing countries are presented. Theoretical models with multiple sectors and segments and empirical analysis using different kinds of data are then reviewed. A brief ...