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This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
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computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …
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Although the idea of coordinating national employment policies goes back to the beginning of the 20th century, little …
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The ILO World Conference on Employment was held in Geneva from June 4 to 17, 1976 and after long discussions adopted an … action programme which provided for quite a number of measures designed to ensure full employment in developing countries … until the year 2000. The problems posed by a policy of full employment in developing countries are indicated in the …
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In 2019, the employment rate among 25- to 64-year-olds in the UK reached 80% - the highest on record, and considerably … certain policies and compositional changes on the employment rate. We also investigate how job 'quality' - in both financial … and non-financial terms - has changed. We find that almost all demographic groups and regions saw a rise in employment …
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model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …
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