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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?

Earle, John S. - 2014

Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...

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Measuring employment and unemployment : should statistical criteria for measuring employment and unemployment be re-examined?

Brandolini, Andrea; Viviano, Eliana - 2018

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

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Short-time work compensations and employment : temporary government schemes can have a positive economic effect

Cahuc, Pierre - 2014

Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...

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Innovation and employment : technological unemployment is not inevitable - some innovation creates jobs, and some job destruction can be avoided

Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment …

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Effects of entering adulthood during a recession : recent declines in youth employment, net worth, and family formation could permanently affect financial well-being

Dettling, Lisa J. - 2016

Current cohorts of young adults entered adulthood during an international labor and housing market crisis of a severity not experienced since the Great Depression. Concerns have arisen over the impacts on young adults' employment, income, wealth, and living arrangements, and about whether these...

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Female labor force participation in developing countries : improving employment outcomes for women takes more than raising labor market participation : good jobs are important too

Verick, Sher Singh - 2014

While women's labor force participation tends to increase with economic development, the relationship is not straightforward or consistent at the country level. There is considerably more variation across developing countries in labor force participation by women than by men. This variation is...

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Do works councils raise or lower firm productivity? : works councils can have a positive impact on firm productivity, but only when specific conditions are in place

Hübler, Olaf - 2015

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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Why does unemployment differ for immigrants? : unemployment risk varies greatly across immigrant groups depending on language skills, culture, and religion

Drinkwater, Stephen J. - 2017

The adverse effects of unemployment are a cause for concern for all demographic groups but they will be most acute for … those experiencing the highest unemployment rates. In particular, high levels of unemployment are observed for a range of … therefore important to determine the factors that are most likely to cause high rates of unemployment, especially from a …

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One-company towns : scale and consequences : one-company towns concentrate employment but their ability to adapt to adverse events is often very limited

Commander, Simon - 2018

One-company towns are a relatively rare phenomenon. Mostly created in locations that are difficult to access, due to their association with industries such as mining, they have been a marked feature of the former planned economies. One-company towns typically have high concentrations of...

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The labor market in India since the 1990s : productivity growth and low unemployment have not been matched by comparable rises in wages

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kar, Saibal - 2018

public sector units in 1991. Since then, per capita output has increased significantly, while the overall unemployment rate … unemployment remains stubbornly high, an overwhelming proportion of the labor force continues to work in the informal sector, and …

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