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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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Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and — through input-output linkages and other general …
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This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …
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measure of technology penetration, we estimate changes in regional employment and wages affected by automation technologies …This paper examines the labor market adjustments to four automation technologies (i.e. robots, communication technology … along with the reallocation of workers between sectors. We find that labor market adjustments to automation technologies …
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This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …
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exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We … find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive and negative … specialization in explaining the impact of automation on regional employment. …
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. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly … focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on employment growth. Therefore, a three year time period from 2003 to … a positive effect on firms’ employment growth rate. However, dividing the sample into manufacturing and service firms, a …
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This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum …, we are able to identify employment effects along the entire wage distribution. The results indicate that the chances for … roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …
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This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of … initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the … Enlargement had a negative effect on establishment-level employment growth, which is driven by increased worker separations and …
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What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low … of low-skilled workers, whereas it will decrease (increase) employment of high-skilled workers in CES utility function …
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