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As part of a more general process of employment reallocation from less to more productive employers, jobto- job flows …
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educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …
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might affect employment in different ways. A policy shift toward a low-carbon green economy may create new and additional … crowding out of employment in other sectors. In addition, energy prices may increase owing to feed-in tariffs subsidizing …
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the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and …
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common working conditions within the industry, limit wage inequality, and reduce gender wage gaps. However, several studies … suggest that those benefits come at the cost of reduced employment levels, especially during recessions. The income losses of …
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The German model of co-determination (Mitbestimmung) with works councils, in which workers are involved in the management of a company, was a role model for other countries for many years. However, since the 1990s the appeal of works councils has been declining, to the extent that now even...
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illuminates patterns of events within an individual’s life and records mobility and immobility between older and younger … course. It can join up data on aspects of a person’s life, health, education, family, and employment and show how these …
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In developing and transition economies as much as half the labor force works in the informal sector (or "shadow economy"). Informal firms congest infrastructure and other public services but do not contribute the taxes needed to finance them. Informal workers are unprotected against such...
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employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for...
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