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(employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points …
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. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high …After discussing theory regarding the consequences of technological change on employment and surveying previous …-tech manufacturing but absent in the more traditional manufacturing sectors. This means that we should not expect positive employment …
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. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high …After discussing theory regarding the consequences of technological change on employment and surveying previous …-tech manufacturing but absent in the more traditional manufacturing sectors. This means that we should not expect positive employment …
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In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing … investment and technological change and hence on economic growth and on employment. There is very little research about the … direct links between monetary policy and employment. The impact of growth on employment depends on what are the main drivers …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets …
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This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as colonialism; geographical factors such as rainfall and...
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spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …) constraints faced by entrepreneurs when optimizing the profitable employment of their education. Entrepreneurs have more personal … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …
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spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …) constraints faced by entrepreneurs when optimizing the profitable employment of their education. Entrepreneurs have more personal … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …
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This is the first study to use an achievement test score to analyze whether the income gap between second-generation immigrants and natives is caused by a skill gap rather than ethnic discrimination. Since, in principle, every male Swedish citizen takes the test when turning 18, we are able to...
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educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school …
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