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labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap. … that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax …
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individual employment careers provides an important methodological advance. In addition, it emphasizes the importance of mobility … geographical mobility behavior of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place … embeddedness of self-employment. It examines whether self-employed entrepreneurs are ‘rooted’ in place and also whether those who …
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routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force …
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We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international …, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … earnings of young adult males. Consistent with Becker's model of household specialization, shocks to male's relative earnings …
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probit models and find that after the reform there was no statistically significant change in the differential employment …-sector employees of this group after the reform. Moreover, the reform had no significant differential impact on employment terminations …
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establishments (0-9 employees), subsidized Minijob employment comprises large shares of the work force, on average over 40 percent …. For these establishments, robust evidence shows that increasing the subsidization of Minijob employment crowds out non …-subsidized employment. Our results imply that Minijob employment in 2014 may have eliminated more than 0.5 million unsubsidized employment …
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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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by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …
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exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We … find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive and negative … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …
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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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