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While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its … firms and non-exporters.  By the virtue of being exposed to higher competition, exporters require greater commitment and … men, exporters will statistically discriminate against female employees and will exhibit a higher GWG than non-exporters …
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unemployment, U, are bads. This paper provides some of the first formal evidence for such an approach. It issues data on the …
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The Welsh economy has undergone rapid structural change in recent years. This paper uses data from the New Earnings Survey to examine how earnings in Wales changed relative to those of Great Britain between 1975 and 1994. There are five main findings. First, earnings of workers in Wales have...
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labour market (e.g. Layard, Nickell and Jackman, 1991) imply that equilibrium unemployment is independent of the capital … returns to capital increase. Using this assumption, we show that equilibrium unemployment depends on the capital stock over a …
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policies on the evolving pattern of unemployment in OECD countries. Such widely used indicators as the generosity of … unemployment insurance or the strength of trade unions are neither strongly correlated individually with unemployment nor … contribute robust and well defined impacts on unemployment within increasingly sophisticated multivariate literature. Our own …
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British regions display persistent differences in both earnings and unemployment rates. A number of studies have found … that in general, regions that have high unemployment tend to have low wages. This runs contrary to a compensating … differentials argument that high wages should compensate for high unemployment. However, levels of labour mobility in Britain, and …
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Unemployment in the 1930s was low in France by international standards, nevertheless there was a virulent drive to … expel immigrant workers as a means of limiting domestic unemployment. This involved not only the repatriation of the foreign …
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Although it is a common theoretical assumption that the chances to find a job fall with time in unmeployment, this is not systematically confirmed by empirical evidence, and there is no evidence for developing countries.  We develop a farmework that allows us to test the four major explanations...
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This paper explores the effects of unemployment on the school enrolment decisions. A few studies that have taken up … enrolment decision that is capable of explaining these results in a unified manner. In this model, unemployment affects the …
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