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Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these … are mostly from the low end of the education distribution, and many are relatively old. They entered the labor force in …
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employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of … new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for process innovation, the final impact on labor demand is shaped by … impede them. Policies should maximize the job-creation effect of product innovation and minimize the direct labor …
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The Indian economy entered an ongoing process of trade liberalization, domestic deregulation, and privatization of public sector units in 1991. Since then, per capita output has increased significantly, while the overall unemployment rate has remained low. However, labor force participation...
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While many firms have recognized the importance of recruiting and hiring diverse job applicants, they should also pay attention to the challenges newly hired diverse candidates may face after entering the company. It is possible that they are being assessed by unequal or unequitable standards...
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, politicians, the media, and the public are worried about a lack of economic integration. Refugees start at a lower employment and …
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that structural change and education expansion can prevent polarization, as they enable a shift from manual to cognitive …
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In many transition countries, the collapse of communism ushered in language reforms to adapt to the newfound independence from the Soviet Union and openness to the rest of the world. Such reforms may have implications for individuals' economic opportunities, since foreign language proficiency...
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