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this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour …, we find that internship experience has a positive effect on labour market outcomes that diminishes over time, although …
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I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...
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We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since there is a strong relationship between cognitive ability...
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We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …
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substitution is low, then GDP, productivity and wage growth may however still slow down, because the economy will then fail to …, productivity, and GDP. …
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High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities because workers may experience difficulties concentrating or have to reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of professional tennis players in outdoor singles matches in...
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networks, promotes both product and process innovation, and yields significant gains in labor productivity. However …
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Recent evidence suggests that automation technologies entail a trade-off between productivity gains and employment …. It shows significant productivity and employment gains from automation in Indonesian manufacturing during the years 2008 … plausible reasons for the absence of this trade-off. First, it documents the presence of diminishing productivity returns to …
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We analyze the impact of within-task difficulty and complexity on workers' productivity in online labor markets. Using … sub-tasks within a problem-solved task. We find that our productivity measures are negatively related to the difficulty …
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sales, value added, employment, productivity, and exports. These effects tend to be of at least 5% and, in some cases, 10 …
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