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This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential...
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relocate when a change in their employment status occurs. We show that, in equilibrium, wages increase with distance to jobs … unemployed workers at each location in the city. We also show that the equilibrium land rent is negatively affected by the … unemployment benefit because an increase in the latter induce firms to create less jobs, which, in turn, reduces the competition in …
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Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers … datasets statistically and economically significant employment impacts are observed. Most of the evidence suggests that the 2 …-2.4 weeks of increased employment resulted from an aggregate reduction in those not in the labour force, with at most a modest …
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unemployment as they cue for high-skill jobs. Moreover, the public sector remains the main provider of employment opportunities for … 2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment … reduce youth unemployment. Third, the analysis of labor market characteristics reveals that young graduates experience long …
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time the UK labour market has also evolved and in particular now has an historically low level of unemployment, accompanied …
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