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market entrants to find employment. We examine the relationship between S&T and job growth in the Chinese industrial sector …. S&T can be expected to have both positive and negative effects on employment. For instance, new technology might … China between 1998 and 2004, we analyze how S&T affect employment growth. Our results suggest that S&T activities have no …
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What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these …
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What factors determine national differences in the size and industry distribution of employment? This study stresses … the role of business taxation, employment security laws, credit market policies, wage-setting institutions and the size of …
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the period 1998-2004. Our results show that FDI has positive effects on employment growth. The positive effect of job …
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What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these …
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This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …
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Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …
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In this paper, we empirically address the hypothesis that there is a relationship between the supply of human capital and the rate and direction of skill-biased technical change (SBTC). Using country- and industry-level data on OECD countries, we find R&D to be positively related to the supply...
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There is a scarcity of women and minorities at the apex of political power. This paper formalizes the concept of the glass ceiling for political organizations and builds on previous research to suggest four testable criteria. A glass ceiling exists if women and/or racial minorities (1) are...
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