To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained … in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and … permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties. …

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 … the labour force activity of older immigrants who have lived in Canada for more than twenty years. Since immigrants could …

reduces the short-run likelihood of institutional change toward democracy. Output contractions due to adverse weather shocks …

effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United States between 1931 and 2010. Our innovative approach allows for … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …

-2018), we explore the relationship between temperature and workplace safety and its implications for labor market inequality …. Hotter temperature increases workplace injuries significantly, causing approximately 20,000 injuries per year. The effects … persist in both outdoor and indoor settings (e.g. manufacturing, warehousing), and for injury types ostensibly unrelated to …

– 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household … characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the health consequences of rising temperature and relative humidity and …-specific seasonality, and that allows the impacts of temperature to vary non-parametrically while rainfall and humidity have flexible non …

consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … and consumption surveys, we find that temperature change has larger impacts in the short term and more impacts on chronic …

productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is …

Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence …