The Peruvian Industrial Labor Force

What Is The Driving Force Behind Industrial Development In Iran? Rent Seeking And Labor Exploitation As The Driving Force Of Industrial Growth

what is the driving force behind industrial development in iran? rent seeking and labor exploitation as the driving force of industrial growth

The 1995 labor force: BLS' latest projections

The labor force is projected to reach 129 million persons in 1995, up from 114 million in 1984, according to new Bureau of Labor Statistics projections . The new middle growth projections show the labor force growing at a slower rate over the 1984-95 period than over the 1975-84 period, with the slowest growth occurring during the early 1990's . Blacks are expected to account for a larger share...

Obesity, disability, and the labor force;

Kristin F. Butcher is an associate professor of economics at Wellesley College and a former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Kyung H. Park is a senior associate economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The authors thank Dan Sullivan, Anna Paulson, Bhashkar Mazumder, and seminar participants at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for helpful comments. The views e...

Noncompetes in the U.S. Labor Force*

Due to limited empirical evidence and controversial anecdotes, speculation over the ubiquity and importance of covenants not to compete in the U.S. labor market is rampant. We present an equilibrium framework to account for the existence and incidence of noncompetition agreements. We then populate this framework using data from a new large-scale survey of U.S. workers. The data show that noncom...