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. Polarization of employment demand is the more credible explanation for the more recent evolution. As in other developed economies … rate. The supply of high-skilled workers more than doubled during this period, contributing significantly to the slowdown …
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stagnant export shares. The limited export competitiveness has hampered external demand, growth and employment. Applying, for … fast growing emerging markets could also raise countries' external competitiveness. …
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Using the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect labour market outcomes over the period 1990-2010. Those with higher levels of creatine (proxied by urine...
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including who should choose the number of temporary immigrants and under what employment conditions. This paper offers an …
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suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …
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We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...
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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
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This paper is concerned with patterns of expenditure and child welfare among female headed (FHH) and male headed households (MHH) in Tanzania as well as with the underlying cause of potentially different patterns. I estimate semiparametric Engel curves to investigate household expenditure...
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wages due to greater labor supply were offset by higher wages due to greater labor demand. We conclude that the demand …It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes … scant attention is that immigrants, as consumers of the goods they help produce, contribute to their own demand. We examine …
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We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of …
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