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We show that sleep deprivation exerts strong negative effects on mothers' labour market performance. To isolate exogenous variations in maternal sleep, we exploit unique variations in child sleep disruption using a UK panel dataset that follows mother-child pairs through time. We find that...
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Germany and asks the personnel managers about their expectations concerning employment adjustments. We find that employment … larger the expected reduction in employment. Employment adjustments are more pronounced in those industries and plants which … works council. In contrast, employment is not found to increase if the minimum wage is reduced by about 10 percent. This …
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in adult life, including labour force participation, nature of employment, and earnings. Thus our findings reveal how …
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's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … directed at improving employability and reducing recidivism, and ultimately, raises employment and earnings while discouraging … negative effect on employment. Contrary to the widely embraced 'nothing works' doctrine, these findings demonstrate that time …
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How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and …
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This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
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systems unless there is an offsetting increase in employment rates. This is especially true for older workers whose employment …
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In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing … investment and technological change and hence on economic growth and on employment.There is very little research about the direct … links between monetary policy and employment. The impact of growth on employment depends on what are the main drivers of …
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Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
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work-life benefits and various employment outcomes in the Canadian labour market. Whilst the theory of compensating wage …
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