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Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...
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The choice over the Portuguese case studies was based on the sample constructed for the application of the firm questionnaires, during the second year of the SOWING project, 1999. This sample was fulfilled of firms among several activity sectors: textile, manufacturing, electronics, transports...
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This paper considers evidence on the impact of ICT on demand for different types of workers, focusing in particular on the age dimension. It first examines data from EUKLEMS using regressions standard in the literature and suggests ICT may have adversely affected older workers, in particular...
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higher level of income-employment situation. This opportunity comes in the middle stage of demographic transition when the …’s readiness in this aspect we must look at the issue of education, skill formation and employment among youth in India. In this …
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. Our empirical analysis suggests that exporting growth significantly promoted employment in manufacturing sector and also … indirectly promoted employment in service sector. Exploiting our micro-level data, we further estimated the impact of exporting … on employment by various groups and found that exporting has a more significant and larger effect on younger, less …
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The author outlines that gender segregation in employment are relatively new for Bulgaria, and there are not many … authors it represents about 1/3 of the registered employment. The agricultural sector is one, where unregistered employment is …
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employment policies, aiming to achieve the objectives of Europe 2020. Estimated monthly data series according to the methodology …
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evil. Two other issues that have often been sidelined are Lack of Regular employment (Underemployment or Semi …-Open Unemployment SOU), and Lack of Adequate Returns from jobs (incidence of poverty among more or less regular workers or Non-Employment …
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. The present paper examines the veracity of this by examining the trends in employment and earnings in this sector over the … nineties and analysing the factors affecting them. Most of the employment expansion has been in the unorganised sector where … wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly …
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We have modeled the employment/population ratio in the largest developed countries. Our results show that the evolution … of the employment rate since 1970 can be predicted with a high accuracy by a linear dependence on the logarithm of real … units. Statistically, the link between measured and predicted rate of employment is characterized by the coefficient of …
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