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Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the … owing to changes in life styles and deteriorating environmental conditions. Supply of health care is overwhelmingly provided … problems, the government has launched a number of reforms. New insurance schemes have been rolled out both in rural and urban …
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incentives for teachers. Performance of public services devoted to health and transports has been mixed. Public health services …
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Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment … has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for …
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income growth of the 1990s was distributed evenly between labour (wages and salaries) and capital (profits). The labour and …
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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556481
workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is … production has also promoted the employment of more highly skilled workers. …
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to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover … status or a smaller network, then that group's drop-out rate will be higher and their employment prospects and wages will be …
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country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …
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lag behind natives in terms of employment and/or wages. The differences narrow as years since settlement elapse …, especially as regards wages, reflecting progressive assimilation. Strong differences in immigrant-to-native gaps are also … to be overrepresented among outsiders in the labour market and, as such, highly sensitive to the difference in employment …
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