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How do social networks affect labor markets?
Schmutte, Ian - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Social networks, or “job-referral” networks, can help make labor markets become more efficient. Outside the firm, they help workers obtain employment after displacement and secure higher-paying jobs. They can also match highly-skilled workers to more productive employment. Inside the firm,...
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Rethinking the skills gap
van Rens, Thijs; Rathelot, Roland - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Evidence suggests that productivity would be much higher and unemployment much lower if the supply of and demand for …
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Rethinking the skills gap
Rathelot, Roland; van Rens, Thijs; Chan, See-Yu - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)
Evidence suggests that productivity would be much higher and unemployment much lower if the supply of and demand for …
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Low-wage employment
Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many countries. How to interpret the prominence of low-paid jobs and whether they are beneficial to workers or society is currently an open question. The answer depends on whether...
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The labor market in Israel, 2000-2016
Larom, Tali; Lifshitz, Osnat - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these trends during the last 15 years. This was accompanied by a substantial decrease in unemployment. New labor force participants are mostly from the low end of the education...
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Low-wage employment
Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)
Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many countries. How to interpret the prominence of low-paid jobs and whether they are beneficial to workers or society is still an open question. The answer depends on whether low-paid...
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Do works councils raise or lower firm productivity?
Hübler, Olaf - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
on a firm’s productivity and what the consequences are for a firm's profits. …
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Do works councils raise or lower firm productivity?
Hübler, Olaf - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) March, pp. 1-10
on a firm’s productivity and what the consequences are for a firm's profits. …
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings
Earle, John S. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings
Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120550