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We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to … influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …
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meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …
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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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temporary severing of employment relationships followed by a phase of more standard labour market search and matching, we use … stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
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We explore future job creation needs under conditions of demographic, economic, and technological change. First, we estimate the implications for job creation in 2020–2030 of population growth, changes in labor force participation, and the achievement of plausible target unemployment rates,...
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correlated with subsequent employment outcomes for workers at different ages. The results depend on countries' level of … imprecise. In sum, reductions in cohort size are associated with moderate improvements in employment outcomes for youth in …
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The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have...
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We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind labor force reallocation. We show that worker flows between jobs in different industries are rare relative to the demographic flows of youth entry and elderly exit. The same applies...
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This paper attempts to estimate the impact of population ageing on house prices. There is considerable debate about whether population ageing puts downwards or upwards pressure on house prices. The empirical approach differs from earlier studies of this relationship, which are mainly regression...
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market of other demographic changes. (Pressure on wages, falling employment). However, the required size of the annual net …
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