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industry and employment. These relationsprovide the building blocks of a new industrial policy. The articles areincluded in … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by CambridgeUniversity Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … inevitabletradeoff between greater employment but at the sacrifice of lower wages on theone hand, versus the maintenance of wages and …
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The COVID-19 crisis may have widely and permanently altered the labor market through the demand for skills. Crises tend to accelerate technological change. Previous recent crises were characterized by an acceleration of automation, which generally led to a decrease in middle-income jobs with...
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This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding … employment. Women have experienced the largest increase in employment, while the employment of men on temporary contracts has …
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A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the … transitory. In this article, I use a new data set on manufacturing employment by occupation to do cument four stylized facts ab … spared from premature job losses. Overall, the employment patterns are consistent with a pervasive shift of the "automation …
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In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI)between identical countries could produce theobserved deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased trade flows or increased MNE-based production....
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A flat tax rate on income has gained popularity in European countries. This paper assesses the attractiveness of such a flat tax in achieving redistributive objectives with the least cost to labour market performance. We do so by using a detailed applied general equilibrium model for the...
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This paper discusses the measurement of production and employment effects of trade policy, and more broadly the effects …
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transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …
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This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the … labour market in the midst of a lockdown. Our estimation results suggest short-term effects of lockdowns on employment …
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Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
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