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demographic shifts, account for plausible changes in labour force participation rates, and achieve target unemployment rates of at …
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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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transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …
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We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...
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private and public employment based on two features. First, alongside a perfectly competitive private sector, a cost … inequality in the private sector. A 1 percent increase in unskilled public wages raises skilled private wages by 0.07 percent and … lowers unskilled private wages by 0.06 percent …
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indicators on education and employment in relation to the EU.An empirical analysis of the incidence and determinants of skill …
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market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …
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aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique … limited role in terms of contributing to manufacturing employment through post-entry expansion …
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of hiring would decrease with a growth in available labor for two reasons: (1) individuals seeking employment would be … probability of employers finding individuals suitable for unfilled jobs. Moreover, individuals seeking employment may engender … the cost of hiring and increase employment demand at any given wage rate. Hence, a change in the labor force – such as the …
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We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...
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