Therefore, individuals differ in age and in their innate labor ability.
Many of them thought TB was a relatively severe disease, which could influence the labor ability.
They included measures of advanced age, loss of labor ability, education, living alone, poverty and small dwellings.
In the urban residents' index, variables for illiteracy, the elderly and loss of labor ability loaded on the same factor, suggesting that illiterate residents living in cities and towns tend to be older and experience mental or physical disabilities.
We furthermore control for differences in labor market abilities through ten variables to proxy parental capital: four dummy variables for the education level of each of the parents and two dummy variables indicating whether the father and mother, respectively, are employed.8.8
ALEC has a sweeping anti-union agenda that would cripple labor's ability to serve as an effective counterweight to corporate CEOs.
The National Labor Relations Board is also approaching a crisis, and could soon lack enough members to do any work, dealing a severe blow to labor's ability to defend against workplace violations.
The fate of health care reform could be determined by progressive and labor groups' ability to fight right-wing lies and health industry lobbying against health care reform during the August Congressional recess.
We break down the labor market by ability quantiles, with individual ability indexed by the immigrant's position at the conditional distribution, and find that high-ability individuals reap a substantially larger return from investment in host language proficiency than low-ability individuals.
This painstaking process took many months of hard labor, but his abilities to remember and revise mentally steadily increased with practice.
