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gender discrimination in origin countries can be a push factor for women and therefore that a reduction in discrimination can … reduce the flow of female migrants. The other theory is that gender discrimination may create a " gender bias " in the … discrimination leads to an increase of skilled women migration. The paper also provides an original index of gender discrimination …
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This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a model with … services are assumed to reduce the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may … gender discrimination if the quality of childcare services is sufficiently high. In the decreasing part of this U …
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equally discriminated against when compared to French applicants. This indicates that racial discrimination in employment is …
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inflation, both as an objective and as an intermediate instrument. We want to show that other variables like employment can be … that they can be function of employment only, which then dominates inflation for use in the policy rule. …
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This paper examines the effects of tourism on labor employment, capital accumulation and resident welfare for a small … open economy with unemployment. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital …
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composite goods from private firms. Such a policy unambiguously increases employment. It also raises private consumption and … employment, welfare and private consumption rise. We provide magnitudes for different parameter values. …
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This paper analyses the response of labor input to technology shocks in an estimated two-stage production framework with both price and wage stickiness and stage-specific shocks to productivity. Our model features a vertical input-output structure with imperfect mobility of labors across stages....
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This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the … period 1960-2000. It is argued that public employment had an important crowding out e¤ect on the private sector and increased …
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Most studies on the green tax reform issue point out that environmental taxes exacerbate pre-existing tax distortions, thereby increasing the welfare costs associated with the overall tax code. As a result, the optimal environmental tax should lie below the Pigovian level (or marginal social...
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This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …
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