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Validating U.S. Earnings Mobility Measures (with Lisa M. Dragoset), Articles & Chapters (2007)
Earnings mobility has been studied at both the macro level (the amount of mobility in...
 

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Earning Their Way out of Poverty (Outline and Sample Chapter), Working Papers (2009)
[Excerpt] According to the latest figures, today an estimated 3.1 billion people still live in...
 

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Segmented Labor Market Models in Developing Countries, Articles & Chapters (2008)

Labor markets are important, because most people, especially the poor, derive all or the great...

 

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A Brief Review of the Literature on Earnings Mobility in Developing Countries, Working Papers (2008)

[Excerpt] The literature on income and earnings mobility falls into three categories:

1. Macro mobility...

 

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Employer Strategies for Recruitment and Screening: High-Performance Systems or Diminishing Returns? (with Jed DeVaro), Working Papers (2008)
We study the effects of recruitment and screening methods on worker performance. If high-performance recruitment...
 

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ILR Impact Brief - Economic Development, Labor Markets, and Poverty Reduction, Policy & Issue Briefs (2007)
[Excerpt] Economic development is generally understood to involve improvements in economic well-being for a society...
 

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Income Mobility in China: Main Questions, Existing Evidence, and Proposed Studies (with Shuang Zhang), Working Papers (2007)
The international literature presents studies of macro mobility (how much income mobility is there in...
 

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Labor Market Policy in Developing Countries: A Selective Review of the Literature and Needs for the Future, Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] This is a paper about modeling labor market policies in developing countries. The paper...
 

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Dual Economy, Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] Dual economy models arose as a reaction against single sector models. A half-century ago,...
 

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Does Income Mobility Equalize Longer-Term Incomes? New Measures of an Old Concept, Working Papers (2007)
This paper develops a new class of measures of mobility as an equalizer of longer-term...
 

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Income Mobility, Working Papers (2007)
Income mobility means different things to different people. This article explains the six different mobility...
 

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Labor Market, Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] According to textbooks such as Ronald Ehrenberg and Robert Smith’s "Modern Labor Economics" (2005),...
 

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The Harris-Todaro Model, Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] In terms of the current discussion of pro-poor economic growth, the Harris-Todaro model and...
 

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Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline: Argentina from 1996 to 2003 (with Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta), Working Papers (2007)

In recent years, the economy of Argentina has experienced both rapid economic growth and severe...

 

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Excerpts from Bottom-Line Management, Working Papers (2007)

[Excerpt] You’re reading this book because you want to do good and you want to...

 

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Intragenerational Income Mobility in Latin America (with Robert Duval Hernandez, Samuel Freije, and Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta), Articles & Chapters (2007)

[Excerpt] Economic mobility has not been widely studied in developing countries until very recently owing...

 

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Labor Retrenchment Laws and their Effect on Wages and Employment: A Theoretical Investigation (with Kaushik Basu and Shub Debgupta), Working Papers (2007)
Many countries have legislation which make it costly for firms to dismiss or retrench workers....
 

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How Much Should We Care About Changing Income Inequality in the Course of Economic Growth?, Articles & Chapters (2007)
This paper asks how much we should care about changes in Lorenz curves and standard...
 

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Minimum Wages and Poverty with Income-Sharing (with Ravi Kanbur), Articles & Chapters (2007)
Textbook analysis tells us that in a competitive labor market, the introduction of a minimum...
 

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Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela: Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses (with Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije Rodríguez, and María Laura Sánchez Puerta ), Working Papers (2007)
This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growth periods in three...
 

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Income Mobility in India, Articles & Chapters (2007)
[Excerpt] 'Income-mobility' analysis involves following the same people for two or more points in time...
 

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Income Mobility in Latin America (with Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije Rodríguez, and María Laura Sánchez Puerta ), Working Papers (2006)
[Excerpt] In the last decades Latin American countries have experienced substantial macroeconomic instability. While the...
 

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U.S. Earnings Mobility: Comparing Survey-Based and Administrative-Based Estimates (with Lisa M. Dragoset), Working Papers (2006)
Earnings mobility has been studied both at the macro level (how much of a certain...
 

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Employment in Low-Income Countries: Beyond Labor Market Segmentation?, Working Papers (2006)

[Excerpt] Throughout the world, there are fundamentally two, and only two, ways that people can...

 

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Leading For The Bottom Line: A View Of Leadership In A Bottom-Line Context (with Gary S. Fields and Cory Stern), CAHRS Working Paper Series (2006)

This paper sets out to establish and describe a new approach to leadership called Bottom...

 

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The Many Facets of Economic Mobility, Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] The main point of this chapter is to show that the different indices used...
 

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Doing the Right Jobs Right: Managers’ Attributes and Activities at Borders (with Jed DeVaro), Working Papers (2005)
[Excerpt] This article starts with a simple value proposition: that companies can save large sums...
 

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Waging the War for Talent: Do Recruitment and Screening Strategies Raise Employee Performance? (with Jed DeVaro), Working Papers (2005)
We use data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality to provide an empirical answer...
 

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Earnings and Employment Dynamics for Africans in Post-apartheid South Africa: A Panel Study of KwaZulu-Natal (with Paul L. Cichello and Murray Leibbrandt), Articles & Chapters (2005)
[Excerpt] The labour market is central in determining individual and household well-being in South Africa....
 

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How Is Convergent Mobility Consistent with Rising Inequality? A Reconciliation in the Case of Argentina (with Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta), Working Papers (2005)

[Excerpt] This is a paper on earnings mobility in Argentina during the macroeconomic growth and...

 

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A Guide to Multisector Labor Market Models, Working Papers (2004)
[Excerpt] This is a paper on labor markets. Why are labor markets important to economic...
 
One Talent or Many? Million Dollar Variables and Statistically Significant Indexes (with Jed DeVaro), Jed DeVaro (2004)
 

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From Communications and Innovation, To Business Organization and Territory The Production Networks of Swift Meat Packing and Dell Computer, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (2003)
 

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Decent Work and Development Policies, Articles & Chapters (2003)
Welcoming the shift to outcomes which he perceives in the ILO's focus on decent work,...
 

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From Cointegration to Mr. Isaacs: The Employment Problem in South Africa, Articles & Chapters (2003)
[Excerpt] In the summer of 1999, I first visited South Africa at the request of...
 

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Keeping Our Best: Econometric Analysis of Retention and Performance at Engineering Solutions, CAHRS Working Paper Series (2002)
This study analyzes the retention and performance of 100 engineers who started work at “Engineering...
 

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Predicting Potential For Promotion: How The Data In Human Resource Information Systems Can Be Used To Help Organizations Gain Competitive Advantage, CAHRS Working Paper Series (2002)
This paper utilizes the data contained in the Human Resources Information System (HRIS) of a...
 

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In There or Up Front? : An Introduction to Bottom-Line Human Resource Management, CAHRS Working Paper Series (2002)

This essay explains to managers and academics a new approach to human resource management, what...

 

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The Microeconomics of Changing Income Distribution in Malaysia (with Sergei Soares), Articles & Chapters (2002)

[Excerpt] This study uses data from Malaysia's Household Income and Expenditure Surveys to quantify the...

 

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Social Capital and Capital Gains, or Virtual Bowling in Silicon Valley (with Stephen Cohen), Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (1998)