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The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011642567
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Labor Market and Institutional Drivers of Youth Irregular Migration: Evidence from the MENA Region
Dibeh, Ghassan; Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid - 2018
Irregular migration became an alarming issue over the last decade for both developed and developing countries. A prevailing assumption in migration policy is that labor market and institutional characteristics play a crucial role in pushing people to leave their home countries in search for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011915219
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The Effects of the 2008 Labour-Migration Reform in Sweden: An Analysis of Income
Irastorza, Nahikari; Emilsson, Henrik - 2020
In 2008, Sweden changed its labour-migration policy in order to facilitate more labour migration from countries outside the EU. The unique design of the new law meant abandoning most state ambitions to shape labour migration. Under the new regulation, there are no labour-market tests or any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292034
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Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era
Winters, John V.; Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; … - 2019
employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration decisions, we instrument for oil and gas production in workers …’ state of residence via the predicted percent of oil and gas employment in their state of birth. We find statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098928
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The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities. A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236860
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Life Satisfaction, Pro-Activity, and Employment
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Yilmaz, Levent - 2021
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the unemployed and their probability of finding a new job. Allowing for a variety of socio-demographic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430596
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Globalization, Technological Change and Skills: Evidence from Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs … affecting employment and skills. The results obtained lend support to a labour–augmenting effect. Moreover, the implemented two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608918
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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants: Evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … identities. The paper investigates the impact of the ethnic identity measures on the employment outcomes of immigrants in France …. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012000823
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Quantity and quality of work in the platform economy
Bogliacino, Francesco; Codagnone, Cristiano; Cirillo, … - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116001
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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do, Minh N. N. - 2024
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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