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employment integration of benefit recipients. To address the issue, we have resorted to a counterfactual approach with data from … two main sources: the program administration and compulsory communications on employment and unemployment spells. We found …
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This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment … outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes through differences in skills and traits. Using Bivariate and Heckit … labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men …
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The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...
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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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) econometric approach that identifies the effects of shocks resulting from hurricanes. Based on the Quarterly Census of Employment … and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as … counties; however, this is coupled with a slower growth rate in employment. Powerful hurricanes have greater effects than their …
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We document substantial heterogeneity in occupational employment dynamics in response to government spending shocks …. Employment rises most strongly in service, sales, and office ("pink-collar") occupations. By contrast, employment in blue … employment dynamics as a consequence of differences in the short-run substitutability between labor and capital services across …
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Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...
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Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
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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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, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and … factors drawing women into the labor force at attractive employment and pay conditions. This affects, by 2004, only a small …
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