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departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …
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this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test …
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the main gateway of the Venezuelan refugees and migrants entering Brazil, and focusing on the formal sector employment of … employment, specially among the female workers in Roraima. Focusing on the host community, the findings suggest that Venezuelan … influx led to increase in formal sector employment among the Brazilians, while the effect on both overall and native wages …
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influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … where refugees are being accommodated. Refugee camps are geographically concentrated near the Syrian border, which enables … on local economies. Our findings suggest that housing and to a lesser degree food prices increased, but employment rates …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
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We study the relationship between employment growth and worker flows in excess of job flows (churn) at the … establishment level using the new German AWFP dataset spanning from 1975–2014. Churn is above 5 percent of employment along the … entire employment growth distribution and most pronounced at rapidly-adjusting establishments. We find that the patterns of …
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impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict that stricter protection increases … became larger when I did not control for industry, occupation, government employment, and human capital variables including …
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data is useful for analysing the consequences for gender equality in employment. Since the demand for labour is a derived … for many firms, This creates a loss of liquidity which, in turn, has caused some firms to reduce employment, working hours …, employment, the share of females in employment and firm expectations of survival). A limitation of such analysis with any …
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Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor …
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the steep influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan on the country's labor market since the onset of the conflict in Syria …, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey), according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Jordan and Lebanon are … hosting the majority of them. This paper utilizes data regarding unemployment rates, employment rates, labor force …
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