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and two-thirds of the additional hiring occurs within two months. The response of hiring from employment is twice as large … as the response of hiring from non-employment. Firms that are smaller, low-wage and fast-growing are associated with … employment, consistent with replacement hiring and the presence of vacancy chains. Growth in revenue and value added strongly …
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This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to workers' origin. Using unique linked employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing...
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and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …
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unit root, we study the causality links between energy use and employment for a sample of 16 African countries over the … indicate that employment and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. Unidirectional causality from employment to energy use … in Tunisia, Cameroun, Zambia and Ethiopia is found. A unidirectional causality from energy use to employment is found in …
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Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …
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positive and significant impact of AI patent families on employment, supporting the labour-friendly nature of product …
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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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, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant … - but within cross-border commuting zones - we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …
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COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
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The COVID-19 outbreak has brought unprecedented disruptions to the global economies and has led to income loss and high unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings, and job loss in a multi-country setting. We...
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