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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …
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by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …
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transfer pricing by the host country affect investment and employment of foreign subsidiaries. The results indicate that …
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We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
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index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment and the …
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the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a … wage-moderation effect and increases overall employment since employment of low-paid workers is more responsive. We test … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …
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provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the employment probabilities and, if hired, the … results suggest a strong positive effect of a higher employment rate in a worker’s network of former coworkers on his re-employment … probability after displacement: a 10 percentage point increase in the prevailing employment rate in the network increases the re-employment …
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employment like labour costs and productivity, the skill level of the population, and demography. Considering that ownership may … be endogenous to (shocks in) employment, we use IV estimation methods. Overall, we find evidence in favour of the Oswald … significant fall in the employment rate by about 0.3 percentage points. Our results underscore the importance of including other …
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