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Discrimination and the effects of drug testing on black employment
Wozniak, Abigail K. - 2012
Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing,...
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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022
This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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A challenge for the G20 : globally stipulated debt brakes and transnational independent fiscal supervisory councils
Dolls, Mathias; Peichl, Andreas; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
Debt-to-GDP ratios have grown to unprecedented levels in many industrialized economies. This requires disciplined consolidation efforts which are, however, supposed to come now at the wrong time with the economic recovery being fragile. Against this background, we call for a global debt brake...
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Testing the importance of search frictions, matching, and reservation prestige through randomized experiments in Jordan
Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David J.; Shammout, Nour; … - 2014
Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized … experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tests the role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412656
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The impact of Syrian refugees on the labor market in neighboring countries : empirical evidence from Jordan
Fakih, Ali; Ibrahim, May - 2016
the steep influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan on the country's labor market since the onset of the conflict in Syria …, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey), according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Jordan and Lebanon are …) methodology is used to examine time series data from the most affected governorates in Jordan. The empirical results of Granger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450222
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A tale of parallel processes of gender (in-) equality : how big is the glass ceilings for Mena women?
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant …
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Gender wage gap - a matching analysis for three MENA countries: Egypt, Jordan and Turkey
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2020
We investigate the gender wage gap in three neglected MENA countries: Egypt (1980-2018), Jordan (2010-2016), and Turkey …, reaching in Jordan a low of -0.18. …
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Female labor force participation in five selected Mena countries: an age-period-cohort analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysıt - 2020
namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019
middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …
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Working conditions, transparency, and compliance in global value chains : evidence from Better Work Jordan
Robertson, Raymond - 2019
This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment … available. The estimation employs data from Better Work Jordan that cover all garment-exporting factories over the 2008 …
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