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The gains in life expectancy are expected to double the dependency ratio and increase population by 10% in Switzerland …
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Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we …
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Refugees hosted across the developed world often work in low-quality jobs, regardless of education previously attained … in their country of origin. In this paper, I analyse the long-term value of formal host-country education for refugees … attained in Austria vis-à-vis Bosnia on labour market outcomes for refugees aged around schooling thresholds. These estimates …
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centers and individual-level administrative records, we find effects on employment rates of 10 percentage points, or 30% over … open-ended contracts. Subsidized internships were a critical pathway to transitioning participants into standard employment …. Survey data indicate that these effects reflect a net increase in employment, rather than a shift from informal to formal …
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Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis … employment of Colombian workers. These effects are predominantly concentrated in highly educated and in female workers. …
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This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it … later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an increase in employment rates, but only in the short run. Overall … substantial heterogeneity in the reform's effects on immediate and longer-term employment. …
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When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
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This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and …
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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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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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