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positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …How many 'American jobs' have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation …
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analysis based on the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) shows that more than 900,000 persons … are employed in the environmental sector in Germany. Following the results of an econometrical analysis of employment … perspectives and innovation behaviour integrated environmental technologies will become more relevant whereas employment in …
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Although many have expressed concern over whether generous welfare policies discourage the employment of single mothers … employment. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we conduct a cross-national, multi-level analysis of the effects of social … policy generosity on single mother employment in 17 affluent democracies. We find high rates of single mother employment …
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educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting imprint in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …
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negative effect on the wage of the low-skilled at the bottom of the wage distribution. With lower returns from employment, the …. The findings provide evidence against the commonly used argument that wage flexibility improves the employment prospects …
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, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment … this general pattern. Between the mid-1980s and 2000 employment rates improved among young Americans in their late 20s and … early 30s, and earnings levels either remained stable or increased modestly. The stability of U.S. employment levels helped …
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It is well established that class and gender predict occupational placement across advanced industrialized countries. In exploratory analyses the authors document a third dimension to occupational segregation associated with family responsibilities, and consider explanations for cross- national...
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.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and … employment. The participation level is particularly important for inequality differences and there is persuasive evidence that … country attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper uses Luxembourg Income Study …
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