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, preventing employment at low wages. This creates substantial unemployment of the low-skilled. This paper discusses the …
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. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions on employment using a natural experiment in Portugal: the … on employment growth. Moreover, the effects tend to be concentrated amongst non-affiliated firms. The lack of …
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system (hukou). The major existing theoretical models of employment and development - the Lewis model, the integrated labor …-decreasing. -- labor markets ; employment ; welfare economics ; China ; hukou …
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At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...
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This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
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While most working people are in employment, there is little realisation that this relationship is inefficient and …
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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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In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing … investment and technological change and hence on economic growth and on employment. There is very little research about the … direct links between monetary policy and employment. The impact of growth on employment depends on what are the main drivers …
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of other employment policies. …
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