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The Short- And Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban
Piza, Caio; Souza, André Portela; Emerson, Patrick M.; … - 2022
Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2023
We use a regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points...
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Employment Protection, Workforce Mix and Firm Performance
Ardito, Chiara; Berton, Fabio; Pacelli, Lia; Passerini, … - 2021
We measure the impact of employment protection reduction in an uncertain framework on firms' hires and performance, exploiting the Italian 2015 Jobs Act. Results indicate that firms (1) stabilize workforce mainly through contract transformations of low-tenure and low-human-capital incumbent...
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The pitfalls of work requirements in welfare-to-work policies: Experimental evidence on human capital accumulation in the self-sufficiency project
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, W. Craig - 2012
This paper investigates whether policies that encourage recipients to exit welfare for full-time employment influence participation in educational activity. The Self-Sufficiency Project ('SSP') was a demonstration project where long-term welfare recipients randomly assigned to the treatment...
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The Pitfalls of Work Requirements in Welfare-to-Work Policies: Experimental Evidence on Human Capital Accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, W. Craig - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates whether policies that encourage recipients to exit welfare for full-time employment influence participation in educational activity. The Self-Sufficiency Project ('SSP') was a demonstration project where long-term welfare recipients randomly assigned to the treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652099
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Returns to Postgraduate Education in Portugal: Holding on to a Higher Ground?
Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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EU Jobs at Highest Risk of COVID-19 Social Distancing: Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Branka, Jiri - 2020
This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social … distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a … Covid-19 social distancing risk index (COV19R) is created based on skills descriptors that categorise jobs by their level of …
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on employment and earnings in England. Clear...
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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...
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The value of peripatetic economists: a sesqui-difference evaluation of Bob Gregory
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2005
I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...
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