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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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The role of sectoral growth patterns in labor market development
Arias-Vazquez, Francisco Javier; Lee, Jean Nahrae; … - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance
Andersen, Torben M.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2003
In a two-country model with trade driven by comparative advantages, it is considered how imperfectly competitive labour markets are affected by lower frictions in international goods trade. Easier goods trading is equivalent to increased mobility of employment across countries and thus a change...
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Chinese immigrants in the US labor market: Effects of post-tiananmen immigration policy
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - 2012
measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 … around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese … examine employment and earnings among Chinese immigrants who were likely beneficiaries of the U.S. government's actions …
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Immigrant labour market assimilation and arrival effects: evidence from the UK labour force survey
Clark, Ken; Lindley, Joanne - 2006
We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from … lower earnings for non-white immigrants. …
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The impact of welfare reform on leaver characteristics, employment and recidivism: an analysis of Maryland and Missouri
Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David W.; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2007
working. Although in Maryland those working have earnings that are somewhat below employed leavers prior to reform, in … Missouri earnings for employed leavers are unchanged. In both states, the types of jobs leavers hold have not changed …
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Minimum wage increases under straightened circumstances
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2011
Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper augments the sparse literature on the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage, using three...
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Total Factor Productivity Growth and Job Turnover in Mexican Manufacturing Plants in the 1990s
Calderon-Madrid, Angel; Voicu, Alexandru - 2004
This paper analyzes the performance of Mexican manufacturing firms following trade liberalization within a very …
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Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations
Portugal, Pedro; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2002
Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment effects of mandatory minimum wages, as the minimum wage increased sharply for a very specific group of workers. Relying on a matched employer employee panel data set, we model...
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Effects of employment protection on worker and job flows: evidence from the 1990 Italian reform
Kugler, Adriana D.; Pica, Giovanni - 2005
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
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