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and consumption go down as well. Governments can offset terror by putting tax revenues into the production of security …, at the level of the death toll by about the same size as due to car accidents, is expected to decrease annual consumption …
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relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …
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reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …
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It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does … not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper …
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The Fair Labour Standards Act (FLSA), impose restriction on working hours and the type of jobs held by minors at ages … wages for part-time and full-time employment that depend also on some inherent skill ‘endowment’ and labour market … the labour market (hours worked) and their known (to them) ability and motivation. The labour market (randomly) offers …
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lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3–0.7%, but that total hours worked fell by 2–3%, implying possible output losses. As a … group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …
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Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 …
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the observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training …This Paper analyses the labour mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former … Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white …
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In this paper, we analyse an equilibrium search model with three sources for wage and unemployment differentials among … and unemployment differentials is possible. We show that the structural parameters of the model, including the firm …’s disutility from certain workers, are identifiable using standard labour market survey data. We demonstrate identification using …
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insight into the problem by examining the determinants of transitions between non-employment (or unemployment) and employment …Following monetary union with the west in June 1990, the employment rate for east German 18-54 year olds fell from 89 …% to 73% in six years, and the decline for women was considerably larger. This employment fall is possibly the worst of any …
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