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Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...
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Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation
Forth, John - 2016
Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...
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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
Hyslop, Dean; Stillman, Steven - 2004
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since … 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The … reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible age for the adult minimum wage from 20 to 18 years, and resulted in …
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When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?
White, Michael R. - 2016
Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS have a non-linear association with employees' overall job attitude, with a positive association...
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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - 2010
has been measured in recent years by means of micro level data in Australia, North America and Europe. However, these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274604
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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Gibson, John - 2010
Over 200 million people live outside their country of birth and experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous because of the potential for self-selection bias. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136954
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The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch : Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques - 2010
has been measured in recent years by means of micro level data in Australia, North America and Europe. However, these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137556
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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members : Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
Gibson, John - 2009
The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining household members, are increasingly studied. However, comparisons of households in developing countries with and without migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156401
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The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration : Evidence from a Lottery
Gibson, John - 2015
We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012021
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Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups : Evidence from Māori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle - 2015
geographical locations. If this were the case, Māori may have been disadvantaged in the post-reform period because they were more …
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