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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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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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Even though donor focus on employment has varied through the evolution of international development cooperation, there … is nowadays widespread consensus on its overall importance as an overarching development goal. Employment promotion is … for indirect employment promotion as a tool for temporary poverty mitigation on the one hand and approaches that …
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. However recent research revealed that they do not necessarily lead to higher growth and employment rates. Recent studies … employment rates. Enterprises in Africa and Latin America caught up in matters of technology; however, this process resulted in a … substitution of employment by technology. The same is true for structural change; only the "right" kind of structural change caused …
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Apart from the 200 Million unemployed, the problem of employment also affects more than 900 Million precariously … and try to handle potential trade-offs. Decisions on policies promoting employment should not be based on their low … of the paper discusses country experiences and examples of strategies fostering growth and employment and identifies the …
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We investigate the evolution and the sources of aggregate employment reallocation in the United States in the 1971 … different technology. We find that the total reallocation of employment across occupations has been strongly procyclical and … these patterns, while correcting for possible worker selection into employment, we construct a synthetic panel based on …
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The life-cycle framework is the standard way that economists think about the intertemporal allocation of time, effort and money. The framework has a venerable history in the economics profession with roots in the in…nite horizon models of Ramsey (1926) and Friedman (1957) and the …nite...
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In this paper we investigate the size of health differences that exist among men in England and the United States and how those differences vary by Socio-Economic Status (SES) in both countries. Three SES measures are emphasized - education, household income, and household wealth - and the...
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Significant departures from log normality are observed in income data, in violation of Gibrat’s law. We identify a new empirical regularity, which is that the distribution of consumption expenditures across households is, within cohorts, closer to log normal than the distribution of income. We...
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