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Innovation and employment : technological unemployment is not inevitable - some innovation creates jobs, and some job destruction can be avoided
Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for...
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Effects of psychiatric disorders on labor market outcomes : a latent variable approach using multiple clinical indicators
Banerjee, Souvik; Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal - 2013
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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Disability and labor market outcomes : disability is associated with labor market disadvantage : recent evidence points to a causal relationship
Jones, Melanie - 2016
discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry into work, disability is associated with substantial and enduring employment …
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Friday the 13th : the empirics of bad luck
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2014
by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …
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The labor market impact of Covid-19 on immigrants : job loss from Covid-19 was greater among immigrants than the native-born in most developed countries
Cassidy, Hugh - 2022
. The labor market recovery for both groups in the US was rapid, and by Fall 2020, the employment gaps between immigrant and …
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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …
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Obesity and labor market outcomes : the hidden private cost of obesity : lower earnings and lower probability of employment
Averett, Susan - 2014
Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some evidence that the lower earnings are a result of...
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Obesity and labor market outcomes : the hidden private cost of obesity : lower earnings and lower probability of employment
Averett, Susan - 2019
Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some evidence that the lower earnings are a result of...
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Hours vs employment in response to demand shocks : evaluating the labor market effects of temporary aggregate demand shocks requires analyzing both employment and hours of work
Hart, Robert A. - 2017
employment and unemployment. However, it can be seriously misleading to ignore the interrelated behavior of hours worked ….Work hours can be altered relatively speedily and flexibly, and this strongly relates to employment, labor productivity, and … unemployment outcomes. The hours–employment distinction is especially important in the evaluation of the performances of European …
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The labor market in Israel, 2000-2016 : unlike most OECD countries, Israel experienced a major increase in both employment and participation rates over the last 15 years
Larom, Tali; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2018
Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these …
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