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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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Worldwide 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level …. Governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and broader policies to enhance employment … creation and the creation of new firms. Because most employment in low and middle income countries is in micro, small and …
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Traditional apprenticeships based on private arrangements are widespread in developing countries. Public interventions have attempted to address failures in the apprenticeship markets to expand access or improve training quality. Subsidized dual apprenticeships have the potential to address...
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constraints have been essentially detrimental for employment among SMEs experiencing a negative demand shock or facing strong …This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment … decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial …
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We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production … summarized by Wei, Xie, and Zhang (2017) that focus on directly observable aspects of innovation (R&D, patent activity, etc …
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Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference model. We find that this … permanent hiring. We also find a negative association between reinstatements and real wages of 3.9 %, but placebo tests indicate … policy to increase permanent hiring and wages. …
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entire (infinite) sequence of wages. We conclude that the speed of adjustment of employment, that is higher in the … employment and wages only in the no-commitment case, i.e., the higher the relevance of adjustment costs the higher the wage and … therefore the smaller the level of employment in the long run. Commitment on the part of the union leads to lower wages, and …
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and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …
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