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Obesity and labor market outcomes : the hidden private cost of obesity : lower earnings and lower probability of employment
Averett, Susan - 2014
Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some evidence that the lower earnings are a result of...
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Realising South Africa's Employment Potential
Barnard, Geoff - 2009
regulation to strengthen competition could help expand formal sector employment. Changes in municipal laws and regulations to … ease migration and facilitate informal employment are also likely to be particularly important. Improving the … implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …
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Entwicklungen auf dem schweizerischen Arbeitsmarkt seit 1980
Frick, Andres (contributor); Lampart, Daniel (contributor) - 2007
economic growth no longer has any effect on employment ("jobless growth"), and second, that the "equilibrium" rate of … unemployment, i.e. the rate of employment that prevails even in favourable economic conditions, is on an increasing trend. This … anxieties. As far as the relationship between the growth of GDP and employment is concerned, the conclusion is, that it remains …
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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy : happiness is key to a productive economy, and a job is key to individual happiness
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015
the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430773
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Sexual orientation and labor market outcomes : sexual orientation seems to affect job access and satisfaction, earning prospects, and interaction with colleagues
Drydakis, Nick - 2014
Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian employees report more incidents of harassment and are more likely to report experiencing unfair treatment in the labor market than are heterosexual employees. Gay men are found...
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Discrimination and Skill Differences in an Equilibrium Search Model
Bowlus, Audra J; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
In this paper, we analyse an equilibrium search model with three sources for wage and unemployment differentials among workers with the same (observed) human capital but different appearance (race): unobserved productivity (skill), search intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an...
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Gender dynamics and redundancy in urban China
Liu, Jieyu - In: Feminist Economics 13 (2007) 3-4, pp. 125-158
This paper focuses on employment narratives recounted in life history interviews with women workers in Nanjing, China …
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Expropriation with hukou change and labour market outcomes in China
Wang, Chuhong; Akgüҫ, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, … - In: China economic review : an international journal 60 (2020), pp. 1-19
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Retrospect and prospect of China's employment development in the 40 years of reform and opening-up
Cheng, Jie - In: Chinese research perspectives on population and labor 7 (2022), pp. 29-53
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Structural change, labor market and employment in Brazil after the 2017 labor market reform
Araújo, Eliane Cristina de; Galete, Rinaldo; … - In: Panoeconomicus 70 (2023) 4, pp. 627-645
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