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Measuring the Impacts of Covid-19 on Job Postings in Australia Using a Reweighting-Estimation-Transformation Approach
Shen, Kailing - 2020
in Australia. Contrary to the commonly used aggregation-based method on counting data, our approach can be used in a … relatively 'thin' market, such as Australia. In a thin market, the number of job postings is relatively small, and the share of … Australia as of July 2020 is slowly recovering from its lowest 45 per cent dip at the beginning of May. Our results also suggest …
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Minimum Wages and Employment : Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2010
based on Australian data, the tentative conclusion is that the introduction of minimum wage legislation in Australia in 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147859
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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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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI : Recent Advances and Research Gaps
Pflüger, Michael - 2010
This paper pursues three aims. First, we provide a review of current theoretical advances which pertain to the relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing-up the value added chain and the turn to a task-based...
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Employment Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Maioli, Sara - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences in order to identify the causal...
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The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries
Lee, Eddy; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021
In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI. A general result is that the optimistic Heckscher-Ohlin/Stolper-Samuelson predictions do not apply, that is neither employment creation nor the decrease in within-country...
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457
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Job Creation by Firms in Denmark
Ibsen, Rikke - 2011
In this paper we will look at job creation and destruction in firms. We will answer the question if it is the large companies that create jobs, while the smaller companies are contributing much less. Or is it the young companies that create jobs? And who destroys the most jobs? In the crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130788
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Job Search Requirements for Older Unemployed : Transitions to Employment, Early Retirement and Disability Benefits
Bloemen, Hans - 2011
In this paper, we use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the older unemployed affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement and sickness/disability benefits. The reform, becoming effective on January 1st 2004, required the...
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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets where the US has a comparative advantage feature...
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