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This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact, labor market outcomes of two groups of women with different fertility rates are...
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impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …
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This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...
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to maintain their real wages by reducing labor demand still further. Furthermore, we argue inflationary pressures have …
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In den Industriestaaten stehen die weniger qualifizierten Arbeitskräfte derzeit unter einem erheblichen Anpassungsdruck. Die Nachfragestruktur auf dem Arbeitsmarkt hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten zuungunsten der formal Ungelernten verschoben, wobei als die Hauptursachen dieser Entwicklung...
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firm size, wages and productivity are positively related. This paper constructs a unique monthly linked employer …-to-job flows reallocate workers from low productivity to high productivity firms and often this pattern is tested assuming that … employment size, wage or productivity show different responses of employment growth rates to business cycles. The relationship …
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In der Öffentlichkeit wird oft die These vertreten, daß die zunehmende Ungleichheit der Lohneinkommen ökonomisch geboten, wenn auch gesellschaftspolitisch bedenklich sei. In diesem Beitrag wird gezeigt, daß die Lohnbildung in modernen Arbeitsmärkten nicht dem Prinzip der kompensierenden...
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and fiscal policies during the recession, reductions in real producer wages and relatively buoyant real consumer wages … back and productivity growth remains low, it may be that it will take a long time for employment to return to levels last … seen before the recession. -- labour market ; recession ; unemployment ; wages …
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We study the Lemons Problem when workers have private information on both their skills and their intrinsic motivation … adverse selection are mitigated. More interestingly, depending on the association between productivity and motivation, higher … two counterintuitive effects can only occur when a positive correlation exists between productivity and motivation. Our …
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This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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