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Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led to increased pressure on common-property renewable natural resources (NR). The problem is particularly worrisome for economies that obtain a large share of their income from the...
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increases in adult employment and health outcomes of adults and children, as key mechanisms from the redistribution. Policy …
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quantitative application to the US labor market, replacement workers represent 2.7 per cent of total employment …
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We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...
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We document substantial heterogeneity in occupational employment dynamics in response to government spending shocks …. Employment rises most strongly in service, sales, and office ("pink-collar") occupations. By contrast, employment in blue … employment dynamics as a consequence of differences in the short-run substitutability between labor and capital services across …
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In recent times the employment effects of technical progress raised much intention. Will recent productivity gains lead … employment if product demand is elastic. It is accompanied, however, by shrinkage of employment if product demand is inelastic. A …, employment and national income for Germany provided by the Federal Statistical Office. We estimate Marshallian type demand …
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This paper examines the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on aggregate employment by exploiting cross …, we find no statistically significant impact of increasing UI generosity on aggregate employment. Our point estimates are … uniformly small in magnitude, and the most precise estimates rule out employment-to-population ratio reductions in excess of 0 …
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they reduced welfare participation and increased employment. Both policies increased job retention once recipients were in … work and boosted employment even after the payments were stopped. Conditioning on hours of work was important. Paying a …
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standard job ladder model significantly understates the search option associated with employment (and thus underestimates the …
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per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …
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