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The issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. The default model is usually one of competitive labor markets. This assumption matters for analysis and policy prescription. There is growing evidence that the competitive labor markets assump- tion is not valid for...
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market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …
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markets are more likely to make the transition into employment than has previously been the case. It concludes that whilst the … unemployed and the inactive remain distinct groups with regards to transitions into employment, post-industrial labour markets …, the study finds that there is a trend towards more precarious employment for the recently non-employed in some countries …
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of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … outcomes in addition to employment effects. We report strong evidence of adverse employment effects among adult females and … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …
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The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market...
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For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
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country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …
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performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …
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impacts on employment and wages. One important mechanism is transitions to nonemployment after disability onset: newly … points after five years relative to that of the control group. For those who stay in employment, working part-time and …
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-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the …
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