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Youth minimum wages and youth employment

Marimpi, Maria; Koning, Pierre - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 7 (2018) 5, pp. 1-24

variables on the employment, labor force participation, and unemployment rates of 5-year age interval categories-all derived …

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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in South Korea: Estimates and Implications for Public Pension Policies

Kim, Dohyung - In: KDI Journal of Economic Policy 41 (2019) 2, pp. 41-58

Health capacity to work for the elderly is an essential piece of information for designing social policies in an aging society. Here, we assess the health capacity to work of older men in South Korea and provide a cross-country comparison. Following the methodology proposed by Milligan and Wise...

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Who cleans my house if the government pays? Refugees, low-educated workers, and long-term unemployed in tax-subsidized domestic service firms

Rickne, Johanna - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-37

from long-term unemployment. I find that the shares of refugees and long-term unemployed in the subsidized sector barely …

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Fiscal policies and the prices of labor: A comparison of the U.K. and U.S.

Mulligan, Casey - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-27

This paper measures the 2007-13 evolution of employment tax rates in the U.K. and the U.S. The U.S. changes are greater, in the direction of taxing a greater fraction of the value created by employment, and primarily achieved with new implicit tax rates. Even though both countries implemented a...

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Adopting Local Languages as Official Languages: Effect on Women and Rural Individuals' Labor Force in Burkina Faso

Yameogo, Souleymane - In: KDI Journal of Economic Policy 42 (2020) 2, pp. 31-56

This study investigates the impact of the use of the main local languages in Burkina Faso (Moore, Dioula, Fulfulde) on labor force participation. Using Ethnologue language data, I compute the relative language distance reduction index, after which I use a probit/logit model and instrumental...

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Who suffers from unemployment? The role of health and skills

Nilsson, Anton - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-24

Unemployment swings have distributional consequences if some groups are hit harder than others. We examine if the … sensitivity to local unemployment rates varies by characteristics such as health, cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability … unemployment rate are associated with larger variations for those with poor health or with a low non-cognitive ability. This …

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