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fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks … lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock … predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to …
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tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …
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heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
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similar to the terrorists. We find a 10 percentage point decrease in the employment of very young Muslim men relative to non …-Muslim immigrants after the London bombings. The drop in employment is accompanied by consistent declines in real earnings and hours … worked. A weak association between the 9-11 terrorist attacks and a drop in the employment of very young male immigrants from …
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respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on …
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market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of workers across jobs (in the covered and … uncovered sectors) and employment status (unemployment and out of the labor force), and c) transitions into and out of poverty … and decreases in employment of private covered sector workers who have wages within 20% of the minimum wage before the …
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outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …
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inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
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training programs, we find some indications that they experienced worse (or at best similar) employment outcomes than healthy …
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Severance pay mandates are an appealing job displacement insurance strategy in developing countries, which have only modest government administrative capacities, but they carry the threat of adverse indirect effects. A critical review of the empirical literature reveals that severance benefit...
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