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, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …
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A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...
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performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …
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What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low … of low-skilled workers, whereas it will decrease (increase) employment of high-skilled workers in CES utility function …
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We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower...
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affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost …
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What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low … of low-skilled workers, whereas it will decrease (increase) employment of high-skilled workers in CES utility function … function so this will have no total employment effects. …
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effects on earnings and full-time employment even when the child was no longer eligible for Cash-for-Care at ages four and … attached to the labor force through part-time employment. …
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they apply for occupations for which vacancies are difficult to fill, but they have to send twice as many applications for … occupations for which labour market tightness is low. Our findings are robust against various sensitivity checks. …
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