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Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs : A Labor Market Sorting View
Faia, Ester - 2020
exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …
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The Impact of Arab Spring on Hiring and Separation Rates in the Tunisian Labour Market
Haouas, Ilham - 2015
are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to … separation, total employment effects and composition of labour force by gender, managerial level and age cohorts. Six models are … estimated to investigate hiring, separation, hiring rate, separation rate, mobility, and net-employment. The results indicate …
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Can Information About Jobs Improve the Effectiveness of Vocational Training? Experimental Evidence from India
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhatiya, … - 2023
vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the vocational training program DDU-GKY in India …
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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2009
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work − 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours. Surprisingly, these differences are greatest among highly...
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Pareto-Improving Structural Reforms
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2019
Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory transfers can support a Pareto-improving reform. This...
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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading : The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we then assess the...
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The Consequences of Being Different : Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
Mueller, Barbara - 2011
When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. But statistical discrimination can induce costs, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the...
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Accounting for Labor Demand Effects in Structural Labor Supply Models
Peichl, Andreas - 2010
When assessing the effects of policy reforms on the labor market, most studies only focus on labor supply. The interaction of supply and demand side is not explicitly modeled, which might lead to biased estimates of potential labor market outcomes. This paper proposes a straightforward method to...
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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn : A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
and predict the effects of output shocks at a disaggregated level. The predicted employment effects are then transposed to …
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