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, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …
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Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these …
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unconventional employment consequences of such shocks at a general equilibrium of a multi-sector competitive economy. A labour market … competition. Subsequent reforms however raises aggregate employment. Thus, we may have a J-curve like employment response to … adverse employment effect. Our findings add to the growing body of literature that challenges conventional wisdom about labour …
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Job polarization can pose serious problems for emerging economies that rely on worker reallocation from low-skilled to middle-skilled jobs to converge toward advanced economies. Evidence from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries shows that structural change and education expansion can...
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Denmark is often highlighted as a "flexicurity" country characterized by lax employment protection legislation …, generous unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. Despite a sharp and prolonged decline in employment in the … labor supply and employment, targeting the young, elderly, and immigrants. Employment recovered to its structural level …
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Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
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the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and …
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-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …
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effects on physical capital, employment and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as … impacts. By contrast, the long-term impact of policies coming only via the employment rate channel materialises at shorter …
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employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …
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