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positive effects on training intensity and process innovation and no evidence of employment losses or changes in the … composition of employment. Taken together, our findings cast doubts on the idea that ER discourages technology adoption. On the …
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transmission. We offer the first study that examines the effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on various employment outcomes … rate, the temporary layoff rate, and decreases the quality of employment. It also reduces workers' numbers of working hours …
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that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …
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Recent evidence suggests that automation technologies entail a trade-off between productivity gains and employment …. It shows significant productivity and employment gains from automation in Indonesian manufacturing during the years 2008 … adoption, such as Indonesia. Second, the analysis finds significant positive employment spillovers from automation in …
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services also contributed, while automation weighed on their participation. …
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This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment … robots' activities, rather than on their industries of employment, the analysis reveals for the first time reinstatement …
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Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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research confirms increasing employment, hours worked, and small business ownership as provinces began reopening their …
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This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment … constraints have been essentially detrimental for employment among SMEs experiencing a negative demand shock or facing strong … product market competition. In terms of human resources management, credit constraints are not only found to foster employment …
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