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This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian …, output, quasi-fixed capital stock and technology. The empirical results show that in the long run, employment demand responds … greatest to value-added, followed by capital stock changes, and least by wages. The speed of adjustment in employment and the …
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This paper analyzes the dynamics of the youth labor market in Tunisia using unique labor force survey data from 2005 to … unemployment as they cue for high-skill jobs. Moreover, the public sector remains the main provider of employment opportunities for …
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This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models … are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to … separation, total employment effects and composition of labour force by gender, managerial level and age cohorts. Six models are …
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of labour increased dramatically in Tunisia as women entered the labour market. This allowed importable employment to be …This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that …
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correlated to the share of unregistered employment, a proxy for the size of the underground or informal labor market. We estimate … increase in unregistered employment. We also find that the controversial regularization of illegal aliens conducted in 2005 …
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This paper investigates a puzzle in the literature on labor markets in developing countries: labor legislations not only have an impact on the formal labor market but also an impact on the informal sector. It has even been argued that the impact on the informal sector in the case of the minimum...
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-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for participants on both the probability of finding a … employment. …
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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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We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …
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and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …
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