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longer working lives. In this paper, we discuss recent developments in employment and activity of workers aged 55 and above … in Spain and the UK-two countries that differ widely on historical and recent employment rate patterns as well as … incentives to return to employment for the long-term unemployed, and greater flexibility in hours and working arrangments for …
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We provide a consistent empirical framework to estimate the net joint effect of emigration and remittances on the migrants' countries of origin key economic variables (GDP growth and labor force participation), while addressing the endogeneity concerns using novel "shift-share" instrumental...
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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 …Japan's potential growth rate is steadily falling with the aging of its population. This paper explores the extent to … participating in the workforce in Japan. First, few working women start out in career-track positions, and second, many women drop …
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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a large sample of countries. We find that de jure capital...
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This paper studies how output fluctuations in Russia are transmitted internationally. Using vector autoregression (VAR) and dynamic panel models, the paper finds that Russia's output fluctuations are an important driver of output fluctuations of countries in the region, especially for oil...
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increases in employment and output rather than only in wages; and (2) even though the domestic saving rate is high, foreign …
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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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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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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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