In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a consequence of job displacement. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of displaced women with those of women unaffected by job loss after establishing the pre-displacement comparability of these groups. Our results reveal that job displacement reduces average fert...

Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamics based on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these to establish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. ...

We consider a broad class of intertemporal economic problems and characterize the short-run long-run responses demand for good to permanent increase in its market price. Depending on interplay between self-productivity time discounting, we show that dynamic substitution effects can generate price elasticities opposite signs short run long run. (JEL D11, D15, H20, J22, J24)

We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had stronger effect on regions close border. The greater availability of increased foreign employment substantially. Although many were highly educated, wages educated natives increased. reason is simultaneous increase in demand: size, productivity, innovation performance skill-intensive incum...

This paper uses a measure of skill mismatch to separate wage flexibility from confounding variation in wages driven by differences job quality over the business cycle. I first show that high cyclicality switchers' goes beyond cyclical movements mismatch. Then uncover large across distribution. Among incumbent workers, are acyclical good matches but procyclical poor matches, particular for overq...

Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country. JEL Classification: F22, J15, J16, J24, Z10

In recent decades, gentrification has transformed American central city neighborhoods. I estimate a spatial equilibrium model to show that the rising value of high-skilled workers’ time contributes cities. increasing raises cost commuting and exogenously increases demand for locations by workers. While change in modest direct effect on cities, is substantially magnified endogenous amenity drive...

This paper studies the effects of adding criminal offenders to a DNA database. Using large expansion Denmark’s database, we find that registration reduces recidivism within following year by up 42 percent. It also increases probability are identified if they recidivate, which use estimate elasticity crime with respect detection and 1 percent higher more than 2 We likelihood employment, enroll i...

The present paper contributes to the theoretical analysis of the human capital investment and participation decision of heterogeneous workers in the search and matching framework‎. ‎Its aim is to characterize the equilibrium and to identify the efficiency‎. ‎Here‎, the paper studies search equilibrium and matching to consider the participation decision of heterogeneous workers who have differen...

This paper discusses those sources of endogenous growth arising from labor as labor. It uses a production function which models the returns to scale as a function of the division of labor and learning. Smithian analysis of the labor process constitutes the basis upon which we build our own approach. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: D24; J24; O41