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this happens mostly in large firms. There are also sizeable long-run wage effects of the reform, well beyond the legal …
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employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …
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relatively strict employment protection regulations have a positive influence on suicide mortality. These findings indicate that …We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with …
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Between 1960 and 1997, life expectancy at birth of Americans increased approximately 10% G from 69.7 to 76.5 years G and it has been estimated that the value of life extension during this period nearly equaled the gains in tangible consumption. While life expectancy has tended to increase, there...
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This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
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We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
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quality of youth employment in Cameroon. The study uses data from the Cameroonian Household Survey (CHS 4) carried out by the … National Institute of Statistics of Cameroon (NIS) in 2014. The quality of employment is apprehended here by five of its … dimensions: income by sector of activity, the nature of the contract, regularity of employment, job satisfaction and length of …
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school graduates accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, because they substitute private for public and … self-employment, overall employment does not increase but is still better paid. For high school dropouts, no persistent …
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low-wage import shock on workers' future earnings and employment trajectories, which stems mainly from shortened …I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they … employment at the firm that was exposed to the competition shock and subsequent difficulty in maintaining stable employment …
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skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in non-employment. We overcome … without formal employment lowers students test scores by 0.09 standard deviations. Using a simple production model, we …
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