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Climate changes affect human capital
Caruso, Germán; De Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023
Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function-physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology …
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Subsidizing extra jobs : promoting employment by taming the unions
Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2007
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Labor reallocation in response to trade reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino (contributor);  … - 2007
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Population aging and the direction of technical change
Irmen, Andreas - 2009
An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical … this framework aging increases the relative scarcity of labor with respect to capital. Therefore, there will be more labor …
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How to measure the tax burden on labour at the macro-level?
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - 2003
The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...
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The "Taxing Wages" approach to measuring the tax burden on labour
Heady, Christopher - 2003
This paper outlines the methodology used by the OECD in its Taxing Wages publication, compares this approach to other measures of the effective tax rate on labour and uses recent results to illustrate its use. It argues that the strength of this methodology lies in its ability to make...
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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months …
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Export take-offs and acceleration : unpacking cross-sector linkages in the evolution of comparative advantage
Bahar, Dany; Rosenow, Samuel; Stein, Ernesto; Wagner, … - 2018
labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
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Impacts of Current Global Economic Crisis on Asia’s Labor Market
Huynh, Phu; Kim, Kee Beom; Sziraczki, Gyorgy - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper investigates the labor market and social impacts of the global financial and economic crisis in Asia and the …, and remittances data to assess the employment and social consequences of the crisis, including falling demand for labor … provides some projections of the impact on unemployment, vulnerable employment, working poverty, and labor productivity in the …
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