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This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment …
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I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national …
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of the paper, the focus will be moved to the possible consequences of this road to catching-up in terms of employment and …
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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied …
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Online labour platforms matching labour supply and demand are profoundly modifying the world of work. Businesses use … them to outsource tasks to a world-wide pool of workers; while workers can access work opportunities transcending national … workers of Ukraine, which in 2013-2017 occupied the first place in Europe, and the fourth place in the world in terms of the …
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job quality across four dimensions: sufficient income, access to employment benefits, job stability, and adequate working … of wage employment is relatively similar between men and women but with some variation in income and working conditions. …
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This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment exporting factories changed after the implementation of a transparency program that made compliance assessments publicly available. The estimation employs data from Better Work...
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation of UK-born workers towards jobs characterized by...
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that China can learn from Russia that it has a substantial potential for increasing employment among healthy people under …
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shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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