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estimate the implications for job creation in 2020-2030 of population growth, changes in labor force participation, and the … coming decades. Overall, shifting demographics, changing labor force participation rates, reductions in unemployment to the …
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
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Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are … particularly deceptive in the market economy. This recent trend contrasts with the acceleration of productivity during the previous … candidates. On the one hand, the French labour market policy has massively boosted the creation of low-productive jobs including …
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responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states … enables us to test this hypothesis across various institutional, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU … SILC datasets we study the relationship between residual wage premia as a measure of labor shortages in different skill …
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unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity … intensification but employers appeared incapable of turning this effort into improved workplace level productivity. Widespread pay …
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results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or … offering dependent college tuition waiver may be a relatively low-cost benefit to increase intended retention and productivity … predictors of intended increased productivity and intent to stay employed at the current institution. Employee retention and …
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productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences … across the countries can be explained. We discuss the policy implications that flow from this finding. …
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among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and …/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer …
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between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply …
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