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Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been … matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment …, regular employment and earnings. In addition to average treatment effects, we calculate dynamic and cumulative treatment …
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immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …
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Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms of the causes, consequences and policy responses, this...
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This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 … possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the benefit replacement ratio, employment protection and the collective …
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ambiguous effect on employment. Subsidies to part-time do increase employment, but they have ambiguous effects on hours and … unambiguous positive effects on market employment and production. …
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This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
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refugees' labour market performance. Specifically, we examine the employment effects of the 2010 reform of the introduction … identify the employment effects by comparing those who participated in the new IP (treatment group), with those who … participated in the old IP (control group). Using a triple difference method, we find positive employment effects of the new IP …
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In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker depends on a permanent and a transitory productivity gap and the model predicts that the wage gap...
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compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we … to estimate impacts on the characteristics of the firms at which participants find employment. We find moderate positive … impacts on employment, earnings and desirable firm characteristics for adults, but not for dislocated workers. Our primary …
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, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment. …
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