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LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labourfriendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment …
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builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women’s employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … employment opportunities. …
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Standard labor market models predict that the likelihood of employment increases, hours worked increase, and … individuals transition from less-skilled and temporary jobs to more skilled and more stable employment as they age. I examine the … general population surveys asking women about transactional sex and a relatively high documented prevalence of employment in …
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connected economy. Disembodied technological change turns out to positively affect employment dynamics in the “upstream …
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updated picture of main empirical evidence on the relationship between new technologies and employment both in terms of …
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This critical and scoping review essay analyses digital labour markets where labour-intensive services are traded by matching requesters (employers and/or consumers) and providers (workers). It first discusses to what extent labour platform can be treated as two-sided or multi-sided markets, and...
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STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011–2015 and tests...
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While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...
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This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second … first-generation immigrants face a substantial employment penalty (up to -36% points) vis-à-vis their native counterparts …. Among the key drivers of access to employment, we find: i) education for the descendants of non-EU-born immigrants, and ii …
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This study is the first in the world to investigate the expected impact of the COVID-19 crisis on career outcomes and career aspirations. To this end, highquality survey research with a relevant panel of Belgian employees was conducted. About 21% of them fear losing their jobs due to the...
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