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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 ratio, namely, demographic changes, a growth dilemma and globalization. This paper discusses how these challenges … provisions combined with collective financing via taxes. However, a high employment rate is needed to ensure financial viability …
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China keeps its exchange rate tightly fixed to the dollar. Its productivity growth and trade surplus have been high, and it continues to accumulate large dollar reserves. Many observers take this as evidence that the renminbi is undervalued and should be appreciated to reduce the Chinese trade...
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This paper explores how the introduction of an experience rated system of unemployment insurance affects employment and … literature, it has been argued that experience rated systems of unemployment insurance may reduce long term employment as firms …, the introduction of experience rating may increase long term employment. Moreover, it unambiguously increases welfare. …
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The paper provides an overview on recent trends of immigration in OECD countries and on the possible effects of immigration on labour markets and government budgets. It also discusses migration policies from an economic point of view. By bringing together a bulk of international literature on...
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collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and …
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The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …
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In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …
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We study the global diffusion of culture through multinationals, focusing on gender norms. Using data on manufacturing firms in China over 2004-2007, we find that foreign affiliates from countries with a more gender-equal culture tend to employ proportionally more women and appoint female...
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. A worker's bargaining position reflects their own productivity, and also the employment status and conditions of their …
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