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The impact of Arab Spring on hiring and separation rates in the Tunisian labour market
Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2015
This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models … presence of continued risk factors in Tunisia's labour market resulting from the global financial crisis in 2008 and the Arab … separation decisions remained present in Tunisia's labour market. In addition, the paper looks at various social issues such as …
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The impacts of trade liberalization on employment and wages in Tunisian industries
Haouas, Ilham (contributor); Yagoubi, Mahmoud (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Trends in growth and labor markets in the last two decades: evidence from Tunisia
Kokas, Deeksha; El Lahga, Abdel Rahman; López Acevedo, … - 2021
Tunisia's GDP contracted by -8.8 percent in 2020, the worst performance since gaining independence in 1956. The poverty … rate in Tunisia could reach at least 20.9, the same level recorded in 2010, and as high as 25 percent according to various … estimates (Kokas et al., 2020); while inequality could reach an unprecedented Gini level of 0.41. While Tunisia has faced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592689
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Working conditions on digital labour platforms : evidence from a leading labour supply economy
Aleksynska, Mariya; Bastrakova, Anastasia; Kharchenko, … - 2019
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 boundaries. Increasingly, workers are located in...
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Global job quality : evidence from wage employment across developing countries
Hovhannisyan, Shoghik; Montalva-Talledo, Veronica; … - 2022
Measuring job quality across countries has been challenging and has relied typically on a single indicator, such as formality or wages. To contribute to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first global estimate of job quality departing from microdata. It assembles a harmonized...
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What is a good job?
Eichhorst, Werner; Wozny, Florian; Mähönen, Erno - 2015
After the apparent rise of so‐called atypical and 'precarious' jobs, the quality of employment has become of interest because such employment relationships are often related to objectively or subjectively worse working conditions. In this paper we look in detail into what is known about job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376307
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Polarization or upgrading? : evolution of employment in transitionary Russia
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Kapeljušnikov, R. I. - 2014
This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment over 2000-2012 followed the scenario of progressive upgrading in job quality or brought about the polarization of jobs in terms of their quality. Jobs are defined here as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457409
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Good job, bad job, no job? : ethnicity and employment quality for men in the UK
Clark, Kenneth; Ochmann, Nico - 2022
Ethnic minority men find it harder to obtain good jobs in the UK labour market than White British men. Over time, while the very high unemployment rates experienced by some non-white ethnic groups have significantly declined and their share of good jobs has grown, their share of bad jobs has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888433
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Digitalization and the future of work : macroeconomic consequences
Arntz, Melanie - 2019
Computing power continues to grow at an enormous rate. Simultaneously, more and better data is increasingly available and Machine Learning methods have seen significant breakthroughs in the recent past. All this pushes further the boundary of what machines can do. Nowadays increasingly complex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867550
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Teacher preferences, working conditions, and compensation structure
Johnston, Andrew - 2020
Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...
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