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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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Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
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characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a … on their highly specialized service input structure, as an instrument to identify the impact of service offshoring. We … find that firms that increase imports of service inputs reduce employment of low-skill service workers, increase employment …
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and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … firms restrict employment to keep wages low, resulting in too many firms that are on average too small. Offshoring on the … markets through exporting and through offshoring, and we show that due to monopsonistic competition our model makes sharply …
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and public employees. After solving for the status quo equilibrium, which can mimic the advantages of employment in the …
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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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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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difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …
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In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this decline are the growth of part-time labor, the reform of the benefit system and wage moderation. Nevertheless, in 2002 the unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased...
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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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