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Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of … strategy proposed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020). We find that the exposure to ICT and robots increased the shares of young … and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …
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This paper analyses the difference in short-term employment recovery between young men and women in India, Peru and … women and an increase in the gender employment gap. In line with the literature, we find evidence that the unequal … of the change in the employment gap in India. Contrary to the previous literature, however, we find little evidence that …
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Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a … transition rates: (a) from employment to unemployment have fallen over time (b) from unemployment to employment were unusually …
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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 limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
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document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we … aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. We then build a life-cycle Diamond …
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participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills …Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey …, 2020), we provide evidence on the effects of ICT skills on labor market outcomes and household welfare as measured by per …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding … employment. Women have experienced the largest increase in employment, while the employment of men on temporary contracts has …
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We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and … part-time work. Transitions from full-time to involuntary part-time employment dominate this dynamics, spiking up at …
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The issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. The default model is usually one of competitive labor markets. This assumption matters for analysis and policy prescription. There is growing evidence that the competitive labor markets assump- tion is not valid for...
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