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In this paper, I estimate the inter-generational health impact of maternal employment opportunities using evidence from … generated spatial and temporal variation in the establishment of garment factories and therefore, potential employment … probability of neonatal survival for children who are born in areas that experience higher growth in employment opportunities post …
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This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective … on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time …
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care for a spouse has not been studied widely. We examine the effects of California's law on the employment of workers who … the paid leave program increased the employment of 45-64 year old women with a disabled spouse in California by around 0 …, with a 2.9 percentage point rise in private sector employment. The employment of men with a disabled spouse in California …
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of other employment policies. …
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stagnant export shares. The limited export competitiveness has hampered external demand, growth and employment. Applying, for … fast growing emerging markets could also raise countries' external competitiveness. …
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result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … employment within one year. The quarterly Labour Force Survey data (ISTAT) from 1993 to 1997 was used. The transition …
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simultaneously specifies three time-use choices - paid work, childcare, and housework - and wage and employment equations for each …
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countries, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. We compare performance in these three countries making use of both … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by … the outflow rate, which is consistent with a regime with strict employment protection legislation. In Spain, however, both …
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Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor … market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less … is reduced and sometimes disappears after correcting for selection into employment. In most cases the remaining …
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