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on employment probabilities in both Canada and Sweden. The size of the co-ethnic population has a positive impact for …Over the last decades, both Canada and Sweden have liberalized citizenship regulations for permanent residents. During … immigrants arriving from non-western countries. The aim of this paper is to explore the link between citizenship and employment …
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heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
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-savings" effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts … positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …
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. Young workers are the most affected by the Great Recession both in terms of unemployment rates as well as employment rates …. For prime age workers employment rates were also affected but for older workers the Great Recession did not have a large …
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Three main vantage points are brought together in this paper: (1) Israel’s relatively good economic performance in recent years – at least, in comparison with other Western countries that have still not emerged from the recession; (2) motivations for the wave of social protests that erupted...
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This paper provides evidence for a causal effect of equity prices on corporate investment and employment. We use fire … whose stocks are most underpriced have considerably lower investment and employment than industry peers not subject to any …
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …
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Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...
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and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …
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to increases in R&D, patenting, IT and TFP within firms; and second it reallocated employment between firms towards more … in employment, profits, prices and the skill share. By contrast, import competition from developed countries had no …
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