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labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap … 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 …
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might affect employment in different ways. A policy shift toward a low-carbon green economy may create new and additional … crowding out of employment in other sectors. In addition, energy prices may increase owing to feed-in tariffs subsidizing …
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industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age, and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in …
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potentially green industries outperform the others in terms of employment, average wages, value added and productivity, net of … implies an increase in employment and value added. In contrast, average wages and labour productivity remain unchanged. These …
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employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for...
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This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. We construct a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive … analysis reveals the following: 1. the share of green employment oscillates between 2 and 3 percent, and its trend is strongly …
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. Using annual household surveys for 2000 to 2014, we construct a panel dataset of 61 local labor markets over 15 years to … study three sets of outcomes: manufacturing employment, labor informality, and average wage. We find that rising Chinese … import competition have negatively affected manufacturing and nontradable employment. Some workers were pushed into …
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The link between innovation and employment is at the center of the policy debate. This paper sheds light on how labor … market regulations affect the relationship between different types of innovation and employment in Latin America. We estimate …) product innovations have a positive impact on employment growth; (ii) process innovations do not affect employment growth …
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-term employment stability among those who lost their jobs early in the pandemic in contrast to the group of the longer-term unemployed … disproportionate challenges during the pandemic. They were more inclined to transition into precarious employment arrangements and … experienced lower levels of employment stability in the months following re-employment. …
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