But, drawing on detailed data from local labor markets in the United States, the authors of the "The China Syndrome" argue that globalization, and in particular trade with China, is having a huge impact on blue-collar U.S. workers: "Conservatively, it explains one-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment".
Drawing on detailed data from local labor markets in the United States, the authors of the "The China Syndrome" argue that globalization, and in particular trade with China, is having a huge impact on blue-collar U.S. workers: "Conservatively, it explains one-quarter of the contemporaneous aggregate decline in U.S. manufacturing employment".
It is an obvious criticism, and an important one, but it makes one fatal flaw: it takes its data from thin labor markets, and not thick ones.
According to longitudinal data from the labor force survey (February, 2011) issued by the Statistics Bureau, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and a statistics training institution, the number of employees in Japan is estimated to be 62,940,000.
More recently, Attanasio et al. (2012) use experimental data in the estimation of their equilibrium model of PROGRESA, and Gautier et al. (2012) combine experimental data with data on non-participants from labor markets affected and not affected by the experiment to estimate the general equilibrium effects of a job search treatment using a differences-in-differences design.
Keyword approaches to measuring women's work underestimate the level of female labor force activity, as shown by the DHS-SFT comparison and supported by analysis of data from the Egyptian Labor Market Survey.
Statistics on foreclosure are snapshots of a moving phenomenon, and data from the state labor department show 174 foreclosures in Belair-Edison last year, while the Community Law Center, a nonprofit public service group, counted 181; both figures are well below the more than 275 foreclosures in 2001 and in 2002.
For the employment multipliers, data from the 2004 labor force survey were used [15].
Using three rounds of recent data from Egypt's labor market survey, we analyze the determinants of the decision to emigrate abroad, at the household and individual level.
We use data from Egypt's labor market survey, which allows us to observe individual and household characteristics before a migrant's departure, thus mitigating reverse causality.
