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This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
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effects on native unskilled wages, employment and occupational mobility. …
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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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(STEM) on employment and wages in Canadian geographical areas during the period 1991-2006. Canadian policies select … Scientists and Engineers during the period 1991-2006. Then we analyze their impact on the employment and wages of college and non …-college educated Canadian-born (native) workers. We find significant positive effects on the wages and (to a lesser extent) employment …
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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This study assesses the economic importance of air transport and airport activities in Belgium in terms of employment … direct and indirect value added (or 1.8 % of Belgium’s GDP), and provided direct or indirect employment for 80,300 people in … full-time equivalents (or 2 % of domestic employment in FTE). Brussels Airport was the one most affected by the decline in …
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, employment and investment over the 2009-2012 period 1 . The sector considered embraces not only the activities directly connected … employment). Brussels Airport is the country’s biggest airport in terms of passenger traffic, but has seen its leading position …. Charleroi and Liège are the fastest growing airports in terms of value added and employment. With the exception of Ostend, the …
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This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
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This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality …
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This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical "natural rate of unemployment" (NRU). Our analysis suggests that the British NRU has remained...
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