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exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …
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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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Many OECD countries are facing decreases in the employment rates of disabled workers. To uncover the driving forces of …) application cohorts for the Netherlands between 1999 and 2013. Our main finding is that the substantial decrease in employment … changing individual employment rates …
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What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, considers their causes and likely future trends; and then explores policies that might...
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As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
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mothers, the point estimates suggest large and statistically significant effects on employment and hours of work, and in …
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