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We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
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The article examines the drivers of migrant atypical employment in the manufacturing sector of the Emilia … and institutional segmentation theories. The empirical analysis reveals that while migrant employment through fixed …
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This review examines the concept of the quality of work and employment (QWE), including both 'Decent Work' and the …
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, the development of wage gap between formal and informal employment has not been examined. In our paper, we carry this … Survey (LFS) for the period of 2005 and 2019. There are three main findings; first, decline in informal employment is not … the rise of white collar low skilled service (WCLS) jobs among informal employment is mainly responsible for the …
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We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health was worse than men's along the four metrics we...
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causal impact of these removals on the labour force participation and employment of transgender people. The findings …
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This paper investigates the causal effects of agglomeration on hours worked by the self-employed. The IV estimations instrument for urbanization and localization using the minimum distance from the work Public Use Microdata Area centroid to the United States' coastlines and estimated industry...
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Purpose: This study asks whether lower quality forms of employment lead to career transitions into higher quality forms … of employment acting as steppingstones, or bridges or, whether instead they lead to dead-ends, or traps, in which workers … uses a unique dataset recording retrospective monthly employment states over 3 years for 373 individuals in the Albanian …
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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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updated picture of main empirical evidence on the relationship between new technologies and employment both in terms of …
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