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The labor market worsening effects of a resource bust : evidence from the crude oil price shock in Ecuador
Parra-Cely, Sergio; Zanoni López, Wladimir - 2022
To assess the effects of an oil price bust on individual labor market outcomes, we leverage the 2015 exogenous decline in international oil prices with geographical variation in oil-dependency in Ecuador. To account for propagation mechanisms, we also test the causal effect of the oil price bust...
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Konjunkturanalyse for Bornholm, 1987 til 1996. Kapitel 3: arbejdsmarkedet på Bornholm 1987 til 1996
Lund, Lars - 2001
of unemployment and wages or wage incomes. Participation rates and migrations are also touched upon. An expectation that … equilibrium values of relative wages and rates of unemployment after a business cycle. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142225
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The macroeconomic effects of a carbon tax to meet the U.S. Paris Agreement target: the role of firm creation and technology adoption
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2021
externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of … consumption and output; a marginal increase in the unemployment and labor force participation rates; and an expansion in the … accompanied by gradual gains in output and consumption and a negligible expansion in unemployment. Critically, abstracting from …
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Full employment : a survey of theory, empirics and policies
Lichtenberger, Andreas; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, … - 2024
unemployment and maximum employment approaches; and the unfilled vacancies perspective. Furthermore, we provide and discuss …
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Gender gaps in employment, wages, and work hours : assessment of COVID-19 implications
Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has highly asymmetric effects on labour market outcomes of men and women. In this paper, we empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we...
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Patterns, trends and policy implications of private spending on skills development in Mexico and the United States
Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela - 2017
This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States. The paper uses a series of high-quality Household...
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Factors influencing Indian manufacturing firms' decision to hire contract labour
Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; … - 2017
The present study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm's decision to hire contract workers. We use information from a specially commissioned survey of manufacturing firms undertaken in 2014 by ICRIER, as part of a World Bank funded project 'Jobs and Development: Creating...
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Robotisation, employment and industrial growth intertwined across global value chains
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Reiter, Oliver; Stehrer, Robert; … - 2020
The global economy is currently experiencing a new wave of technological change involving new technologies, especially in the realm of artificial intelligence and robotics, but not limited to it. One key concern in this context is the consequences of these new technologies on the labour market....
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Do bus rapid transit systems improve accessibility to job opportunities for the poor? : the case of Lima, Peru
Oviedo, Daniel; Scholl, Lynn; Innao, Marco; Pedraza, … - 2018
Investments in public transit infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean often aim to reduce spatial and social inequalities by improving accessibility to jobs and other opportunities. The Metropolitano, Lima's BRT project at inception, had, as one of its central goals, to connect low...
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A rapid road to employment? : the impacts of a bus rapid transit system in Lima
Scholl, Lynn; Martinez, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; … - 2018
Despite the growing interest in and proliferation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems around the world, their causal impacts on labor market outcomes remain unexplored. Reduced travel times for those who live near BRT stations or near feeder lines, may increase access to a wider array of job...
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