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The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so …-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized … the period 1992 to 1995. Therefore, the IAB employment subsample is equipped with data of one percent of all employees …
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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 provides a comprehensive analysis of the link between suicidal behaviors and labor market productivity of … hourly wage rates. The richness of the data set allows us to implement several strategies to control for unobserved … suicide thoughts and suicide attempts decrease the hourly wage rate and the probability that a young adult individual works …
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to median wage ratio could be associated with a decline in the share of formal employment of between 1.2-5.6 percentage …This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement … as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data …
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the average wage and a reduction in employment of -0.46%. We find that increases in the private sector minimum wage are …Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over … the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of …
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gap. We perform an analysis of the relationship between age, wage and productivity using a matched worker-firm panel …Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while …
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structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …)). Next, it treats studies analyzing differences in service-industry employment, and offers a discussion of studies focussing …
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …
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This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity … trade-off. We consider an equilibrium search model with wage posting and specific human capital investment where … unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on …
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training program along three dimensions: employment, job-related skills and productivity. We find that respondents score …. In a first stage, we investigate how the employment status at different dates (one month, one year, and two years after …
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