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Hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths are ineffective in a tight labor market
Dejemeppe, Muriel; Delpierre, Matthieu; Pourtois, Mathilde - 2024
We evaluate the impact of hiring subsidies for unemployed jobseekers in Wallonia, the Frenchspeaking region in the south of Belgium. The special feature of these subsidies is that they are more readily available for low-educated youths, who are eligible from registration as a jobseeker or a few...
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Refugee migration, labor demand,and local employment
Auer, Daniel; Götz, Lilia - 2021
Whether or not immigration negatively affects the labor market outcomes of natives is an ongoing debate. One of the challenges for empirical evidence is the simultaneity of supply- and demand-side effects. To isolate the demand side, we focus on recent refugees in Germany who are exogenously...
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The statutory minimum wage in Germany and the labor demand elasticities of low-skilled workers : a regression discontinuity approach with establishment panel data
Kölling, Arnd - 2020 - This version: October 16th, 2020
This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...
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Stop worrying and love the robot : an activity-based approach to assess the impact of robotization on employment dynamics
Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Scicchitano, Sergio; … - 2021
This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment … robots' activities, rather than on their industries of employment, the analysis reveals for the first time reinstatement …
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Heterogeneous effects of credit constraints on SMEs' employment : evidence from the Great Recession
Cornille, David; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2018
This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment … constraints have been essentially detrimental for employment among SMEs experiencing a negative demand shock or facing strong … product market competition. In terms of human resources management, credit constraints are not only found to foster employment …
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The impact of COVID-19 on health workers : a health labor market perspective to improve response
Bustamante Izquierdo, Juana Paola; Cometto, Giorgio; … - 2024
This paper uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant policy levers. It compiles a collection of literature using a standardized measurement framework to determine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers. It examines the relevant...
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Will robot replace workers? : assessing the impact of robots on employment and wages with meta-analysis
Guarascio, Dario; Piccirillo, Alessandro; Reljic, Jelena - 2024
This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from … 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a … minimal. Thus, concerns about the disruptive effects of robots on employment and the risk of widespread technological …
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Globalization, technological change and skills : evidence from Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; 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 …
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Economic effects of overtime premium flexibility : firm- and worker-level evidence from a law reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2017
also find that those firms that cut overtime premiums exhibit significant relative increases in overtime usage, employment …
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The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education : a regression discontinuity analysis
Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kucukbayrak, Muserref; Tumen, Semih - 2021
youth employment and education in Turkey. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference …-in-discontinuities analysis, we find that increasing the minimum wage reduces the employment probability of young males by 2.5-3.1 percentage …, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and training" (NEET) category notably …
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