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.We investigate the reliability of "single-question" data using the ONS Omnibus and BritishSocial Attitudes (BSA) surveys as examples... …
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Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study theeffects of international …
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We model decisions with respect to formality or informality for entrepreneurs in a newindustry for a developing economy …
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individual shops. We find that the announcements of the shop being sold to a new owner and being closed down reduce sales by six …
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,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits … bonus dollar an extra $3.80 of sales, and $2.10 of operational profit. The results show the importance of complementarities …
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literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal self-employment and informal employment as … indicates the source of the difference in the high dispersion of informal self-employment income and in the low duration of …
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accompanied by an employment increase of similar magnitude. To understand the absence of labor supply effects, we examine data on …
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We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German … employment effects for the least routine-task intensive occupations and for young workers, the latter being better at adapting to … change. An event-study analysis for robot adoption confirms both predictions. We do not find decreasing employment for any …
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Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the … estimating the joint effects of formal schooling, literacy and numeracy skills, and adult literacy programs on employment and … wage outcomes. Wage and employment status equations are estimated jointly, allowing employment status to be endogenous …
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Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and the few recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...
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