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Bullying at school and labour market outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment … outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes through differences in skills and traits. Using Bivariate and Heckit … labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men …
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Automation and the changing nature of work
Josten, Cecily; Lordan, Grace - 2022
This study identifies the job attributes, and in particular skills and abilities, which predict the likelihood a job is recently automatable drawing on the Josten and Lordan (2020) classification of automatability, EU labour force survey data and a machine learning regression approach. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171206
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The labor market in Japan, 2000–2018 : despite a plummeting working-age population, Japan has sustained its labor force size, thanks mostly to surging employment among women
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Mori, Hiroaki - 2019
As the third largest economy in the world and a precursor of global trends in population aging, Japan’s recent experiences provide important lessons regarding how demographic shifts affect the labor market and individuals’ economic well-being. On the whole, the labor market has shown a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034070
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The labor market in Japan, 2000–2016 : despite a plummeting working-age population, Japan has sustained its labor force size, thanks mostly to surging employment among women
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Mori, Hiroaki - 2017
As the third largest economy in the world and a precursor of global trends in population aging, Japan’s recent experiences provide important lessons regarding how demographic shifts affect the labor market and individuals’ economic well-being. On the whole, the labor market has shown a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730579
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Post-merger restructuring of the labor force
Gehrke, Britta; Maug, Ernst; Obernberger, Stefan; … - 2021
employment of targets declines by more than half within two years after acquisitions relative to a matched sample, and is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519948
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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Minh Do - 2024
While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...
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Divergence in labour force growth : should wages and prices grow faster in Germany?
Beissinger, Thomas; Hellier, Joël; Marczak, Martyna - 2020
We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...
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The effect of housing wealth on labor force participation : evidence from China
Fu, Shihe; Liao, Yu; Zhang, Junfu - 2016
This paper uses the 2011 China Household Finance Survey data to estimate the effect of change in housing value on homeowners' labor force participation. Using the average housing capital gains of other homes in the same community as an instrument for the housing capital gains of a given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452653
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The future of work : challenges for job creation due to global demographic change and automation
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Algur, Eda; Bloom, David E.; … - 2020
We explore future job creation needs under conditions of demographic, economic, and technological change. First, we estimate the implications for job creation in 2020-2030 of population growth, changes in labor force participation, and the achievement of plausible target unemployment rates,...
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The labor demand was downward sloping : disentangling migrants' inflows and outflows, 1929 - 1957
Biavaschi, Costanza - 2012
This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence,...
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