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of "jobless growth", India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainly in urban areas and for men. This has … employment in urban areas. But the ability of the manufacturing sector to engage workers will be constrained by the capital and … skill intensity of production. More wage employment will be created but the challenge is to ensure these workers have access …
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Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region falls behind several other geo-economic regions in terms of women's participation rates in the labour market. This paper examines the implications of firm-related and national factors for Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP) rates in...
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meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …
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restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … market restrictions, and linked register data 1999 2016. We document large negative employment and earnings effects of …
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optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …
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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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Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However … entailing future stronger labor rigidities, from January 2001 to May 2012. Using the Permanent Employment Survey (EPE), we find … a negative relation between expectations towards a stricter labor market and both employment and average income. News …
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) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment …
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After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a distinct U-shaped relationship between skill levels and employment and …
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