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The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …
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? -- IV. Women to the Rescue: Policies to Raise FLP in Japan -- A. Hurdle 1: Employment and Promotion Policies -- B. Hurdle 2 …
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Using quarterly temperature and employment data between 1990 and 2021, this paper uncovers nuanced evidence on the … impact of seasonal temperature within US counties: higher winter temperature increases private sector employment growth while … "Financial Activities." In contrast, the positive effects of a warmer winter are less pervasive. The employment effect of a …
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female employment and reduces gender inequality, the effect being more pronounced in firms without traditional financial …
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gender gaps in employment and job loss related to the COVID-19 crisis. Using a sample of Latin American countries, our … findings suggest that higher levels of digitalization are associated with increased female employment and reduced job loss for …
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Three years after the COVID-19 crisis, employment and total hours worked in Europe fully recovered, but average hours …
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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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This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum wage … on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …
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We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …
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To understand better Canada's smooth reallocation of labor in response to the recent commodity price boom, but seemingly poor productivity performance, this paper examines job and firm dynamics in Canada relative to the United States. Overall, it finds that while Canada's labor market efficiency...
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