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market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …
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high degree of (nonrandom) fluctuation in employment the composition of the employed population will have a considerable … 1996-2003. During these years employment in Poland fell from 51.2% to 44.2% and most of it occurred between the end of 1998 … purely to changes in employment …
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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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the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … it. Hiring more people can increase or decrease the unemployment rate. All shocks raise the wage and crowd out employment … study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in …
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While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...
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meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two … cycle component. We find significantly larger unemployment responses to economic shocks for low-skilled workers relative to …
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) econometric approach that identifies the effects of shocks resulting from hurricanes. Based on the Quarterly Census of Employment … and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as … counties; however, this is coupled with a slower growth rate in employment. Powerful hurricanes have greater effects than their …
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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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What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, considers their causes and likely future trends; and then explores policies that might...
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