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This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin American and Caribbean countries and examines the implications of such transformations for childrens school attendance and progress and womens labor force participation. Latin...
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In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask … flexible labor markets in a country are a key factor to have employment upgrading in response to immigration. … labor market. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood of non-employment or geographical mobility. We find that more …
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Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
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occupationspecific effects: offshoring seems to have beneficial employment effects for native craft workers in this set of economies … the exception of manual workers), while robotisation in manufacturing showed strongly negative impacts on the employment … for productivity and demand effects - and this is mostly accounted for by immigration from low- to medium-income source …
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effect of the inflows of immigrants on their career, employment and wages. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by …
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services offshoring - and immigration have negative direct employment effects on all occupations, but native clerks and manual … negative employment effect than does immigration. Our results also identify an important (labour demand) elasticity-channel of … impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in …
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ages, and by moving into solo self-employment. This is true both in response to their own trade exposure, and as an ‘added … increase labour supply if their male partners were initially employed in exposed industries. In general, self-employment … appears to act as an employment buffer for men but not women. The impacts of import competition on partnering and family …
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