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groups have not experienced any significant increase. This paper uses the demand and supply model with imperfect substitution …. The increase in relative supply of tertiary workers during 1983-1993 offset the demand shift, limiting the wage premium … in India. The findings of this paper are that the increase in the wage premium has come mostly from demand shifts in …
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them to raise their prices, increase their utilization of credit, and reduce their employment. However, when policy rates … are constrained by the effective lower bound, demand effects are stronger, leading firms to raise their prices more and no … longer reduce their employment …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
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study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in … the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … it. Hiring more people can increase or decrease the unemployment rate. All shocks raise the wage and crowd out employment …
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economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … further dualization of labour markets given that risks are allocated unequally across types of employment …
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The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one …-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality … the dominance of natural resources in the Russian economy and employment concentration is closely linked …
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This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different ECD labour markets in explaining … employment in the PS vs. the private sector, using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), in the light of different …
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While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...
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meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …
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demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic …
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