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This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants andtheir complete grant history...
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Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by nowcomplete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the systemof support for low-income families still implies very different poverty alleviation schemescompared to those found in many...
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We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector.To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accuratelydistinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sectorand link individuals...
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A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … approximately half of the 4.7% loss. There is a potential role for activating labor market policies, because I show that for the …
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This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by …
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communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …
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in the Becker tradition are reminiscent of models of labor markets in which firms and workers are independent decision …
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individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural … administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim … poor labor market outcomes later in life. Specifically, exposure to Ramadan in the 7th month of gestation results in a …
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reviewing the evidence. Firstly, demand for labor is unevenly affected, with agriculture, heat-exposed manufacturing, and the …. Secondly, climate change impacts labor supply through absenteeism, shirking, and altering work-time patterns, depending on the … influence labor allocation and catalyze sectoral reallocation. Higher temperatures are also linked to increased migration. But …
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pandemic across 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries, exploring the repercussions on labor market outcomes and children … extent than educational support. We also show evidence indicating a decline in maternal labor force participation and a rise … in flexible labor arrangements as mothers allocated more hours to child-related duties. Our study also provides …
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