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R&D expenditures and employment : evidence from Europe
Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labourfriendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110063
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Quantity and quality of work in the platform economy
Bogliacino, Francesco; Codagnone, Cristiano; Cirillo, … - 2019
This critical and scoping review essay analyses digital labour markets where labour-intensive services are traded by matching requesters (employers and/or consumers) and providers (workers). It first discusses to what extent labour platform can be treated as two-sided or multi-sided markets, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144542
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EU enlargement and (temporary) migration : effects on labour market outcomes in Germany
Hammer, Luisa; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2022
distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821802
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What shifts did Covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?
Baert, Stijn - 2021
This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505164
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Labour standards : [prepared for the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, edited by Klaus f. Zimmermann]
Gunderson, Morley - 2021 - (Revised June 2021)
This chapter deals with the question of whether labour standards are less relevant or more relevant for the new world of work which is vastly different from the old world of work when most labour standards were first established. The various rationales for labour standards are first outlined....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549115
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Labour market outcomes for cancer survivors : a review of the reviews
Sharipova, Adelina; Baert, Stijn - 2019
Objectives: To synthesise the existing reviews conducted on the labour market outcomes of cancer survivors by focusing on (i) the convergences and divergences on the overall work-related outcomes, (ii) the moderating factors studied to date, and (iii) an identification of areas where more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139867
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The distributional impacts of early employment losses from COVID-19 : [running head: employment losses from COVID-19]
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221840
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The impact of early marriage on women's employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … employment opportunities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113827
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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa
Brookes Gray, Harriet; Taraz, Vis; Halliday, Simon D. - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879896
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English skills and early labour market integration : evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia
Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286371