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-wage jobs. We then use cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of job-specific employment to map out the importance of routine …
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-wage jobs. We then use cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of job-specific employment to map out the importance of routine …
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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …
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The business cycle is likely to be of importance for self-employment rates. When the economy is growing, business … opportunities open up and encourage the set-up of new firms. In downturns, self-employment may be a way to avoid unemployment. The … that although the local business cycle is of minor importance for total self-employment rates in Sweden, there are …
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The business cycle is likely to be of importance for self-employment rates. When the economy is growing, business … opportunities open up and encourage the set-up of new firms. In downturns, self-employment may be a way to avoid unemployment. The … that although the local business cycle is of minor importance for total self-employment rates in Sweden, there are …
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We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in rela- tion to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and unobserved attributes of the spouse and to estimate both short- and long-term eects of entering...
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Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
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. The stated motive of the reform was to boost employment; in particular to provide incentives for individuals to go from … results are sensitive with respect to how we define employment, which is especially true when we analyze different subgroups …
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I study the effects of naturalizations on labor market outcomes and family formation. The results show that naturalizations are associated with improving economic outcomes for immigrants from outside the OECD. The strength of the correlation varies depending on the country group and gender. A...
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