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Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social … the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of SP on disaggregated labor market decisions, taking into account …. Income effects are also apparent, with significantly decreased flows out of unemployment and lower labor force participation …
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Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social … the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of SP on disaggregated labor market decisions, taking into account …. Income effects are also apparent, with significantly decreased flows out of unemployment and lower labor force participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323384
Between 2011 and 2014, Texas enacted three pieces of legislation that significantly reduced funding for family planning services and increased restrictions on abortion clinic operations. Together this legislation creates cross-county variation in access to abortion and family planning services,...
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Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of … security contributions, and interventions that enforce labor or business formalization. In this paper, we compile a database of … intervention type is not a strong determinant for the effectiveness of formalization interventions, though tax incentives and labor …
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concerns for a labor training program. The ability of different workers may significantly affect the outcomes of a labor … training program. The objective of this paper is to look at the incentive of labor to enter the program using data of a pilot … active labor proportion in a family are the core instruments that influence participation of laborers in the rural labor …
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This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...
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We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...
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This paper examines whether the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment, a labor market … intermediation program adopted by the Algerian government in 2008, reduced the informality of employment in Algeria. Using repeated … results show that the Action Plan has in fact contributed to reducing employment informality in such enterprises, but with …
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The authors employ spatial econometrics techniques and Annual Averages data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics …
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The importance of using natural experiments in economic research has long been recognized. Yet, it is only in recent years that natural experiments have become an integral part of the economist's analytical toolbox, thanks to the efforts of Meyer, Card, Peters, Krueger, Gruber, and others. This...
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