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set out to investigate such determinants. Workforce disposal is present also in Spain, though to a lesser extent than … workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join …
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labor markets during periods of workforce growth and decline. We find multiple ports of entry that are concentrated in low …
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buyer with the same local pool of labor. One factory views its workforce as a variable cost to be minimized, limits training …
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This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....
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Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U.S. corporation, and test various predictions of theoretical...
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Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs. This paper uses an audit study to determine the extent of caste-based discrimination in the Indian private sector. On...
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of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent …
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We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining … registry of live births in Spain, elaborated by the Spanish Statistical Institute (INE). We focus on live births conceived …
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This paper assesses how new immigrants to Spain fare in the country's labor market, evaluating the conditions under … immigrants who arrived in Spain between 2000 and 2007 were able to find work and eventually move out of the low-skilled positions … shed low- and middle-skilled jobs in sectors dominated by immigrants. In the long term, Spain will likely need immigrants …
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The Spanish labour market disproportionately booms in expansions and bursts in recessions; meanwhile, its regions' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To examine this twofold feature, we apply Blanchard and Katz's...
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