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product and in labour markets, in the determination of sectoral employment growth in Italy during the last forty years (1951 … markets were quantitatively more important than changes in product markets in the determination of sectoral employment growth … remained constant after 1973, our simulations suggest that, on average, industrial and service employment would have been …
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Advocates of apprenticeship programmes often argue as if it is simply a matter of historical accident that such investment by US firms has been hindered. This paper explores the structure of incentives underpinning the German system of apprenticeship training. First, we describe three...
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product demand can affect employment under these conditions. The analysis suggests that the longer-term effectiveness of …
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employment are determined by optimizing choices in an imperfectly competitive setting. It turns out that underemployment …
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For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender … discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 …
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