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Comparing the Employment-Output Elasticities of Expatriates and Nationals in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Behar, Alberto - 2015
We estimate the elasticity of private-sector employment to non-oil GDP in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for GCC … nationals and expatriates using a Seemingly Unrelated Error Correction (SUREC) model. Our results indicate that the employment …
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The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany
Beyer, Robert - 2016
The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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Gone with the Wind : Estimating Hurricane and Climate Change Costs in the Caribbean
Acevedo Mejia, Sebastian - 2016
This paper studies the economic costs of hurricanes in the Caribbean by constructing a novel dataset that combines a detailed record of tropical cyclones' characteristics with reported damages. I estimate the relation between hurricane wind speeds and damages in the Caribbean; finding that the...
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Perfect Storm : Climate Change and Tourism
Cevik, Serhan; Ghazanchyan, Manuk - 2021
While the world's attention is on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change remains a greater existential threat to vulnerable countries that are highly dependent on a weather-sensitive sector like tourism. Using a novel multidimensional index, this study investigates the long-term...
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Employment Effects of Environmental Policies – Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Mohommad, Adil - 2022
The employment impact of environmental policies is an important question for policy makers. We examine the effect of … reallocation of employment. Moreover, tightening EPS during economic contractions appears to have a positive effect on employment …, other things equal. Quantifications exercises show modest positive net changes in employment for market-based policies, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300851
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Electricity Consumption and Temperature : Evidence from Satellite Data
Yao, Jiaxiong - 2021
Past studies on the relationship between electricity consumption and temperature have primarily focused on individual countries. Many regions are understudied as a result of data constraint. This paper studies the relationship on a global scale, overcoming the data constraint by using grid-level...
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Is Technology Widening the Gender Gap? Automation and the Future of Female Employment
Brussevich, Mariya - 2019
Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...
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Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment?
Behar, Alberto - 2013
We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … private-sector employment rates and high proportions of government-sector employment. Regressions of either private …-sector employment rates or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that …
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Still Attached? Are Social Safety Nets Working? Labor Force Participation in European Regions
Hilgenstock, Benjamin - 2018
The paper examines the evolution and drivers of labor force participation in European regions, focusing on the effects of trade and technology. As in the United States, rural regions within European countries saw more pronounced declines (or smaller increases) in participation than urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912499
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Storm Clouds Ahead? Migration and Labor Force Participation Rates in Europe
Hilgenstock, Benjamin - 2018
The paper examines the potential effects of international migration on labor force participation in advanced economies in Europe. It documents that migration played a significant role in alleviating aging pressures on labor supply by affecting the age composition of receiving countries'...
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