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This study examines the effect of English language ability and time spent in the USA on the earnings of immigrants. Earnings are examined for immigrants of eight broad ancestry areas. Earnings are compared to native‐born Americans of the same ancestry. The study is limited to males between the...
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This paper examines the impact of government taxation policy on self‐employment as the preferred form of job tenure in … the British construction industry. It analyses the rapid growth in self‐employment over the period 1970‐1996 in the … context of a very benign tax regime. It shows how self‐employment has grown far more rapidly in construction than in other …
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the population of immigrants and 10 per cent of the Danish population during 1984‐1995. Wages and employment probabilities …
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Until now there has been surprisingly little research on the causes of and the remedies for skills obsolescence. This study tries to fill that gap to some extent by analysing the relation between risk factors and skills obsolescence. Moreover, the role remedies play to counter skills...
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Japanese employment system. How fundamental or reversible they are is harder to evaluate. If the economic recovery prevails, a …‐oriented flexibility than previously existed. Despite the connection between the seniority‐based salary system and the lifetime employment …
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What impact did privatization have on employment in Russian industry? Utilizes data collected from a panel of 6 … in more detail the relationship between changes in ownership and employment in Russian industry between 1992 and 1995. In … competitive position of the firm in explaining variation in the employment response to changing output conditions during the …
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Analyses factors determining the outflows from unemployment to employment across regions in Poland over the years 1992 …‐98, employing the concept of the augmented matching function. Explores also the influence of the economic growth and the employment … structure of the regional labour markets in Poland. Concludes that the values of outflows from unemployment to employment are …
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employment in the federal jurisdiction, and in organizations that sell goods or services to the federal government. Data … collected pursuant to the Employment Equity Act, as well as published literature and government documents, are reviewed in order … basis for assessing both progress and lack of improvement in the employment status of racial minority, aboriginal, and …
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‐evaluated vis‐à‐vis both their labour‐market policies. We present a statistical comparison of employment and unemployment in the two …
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reduced employment. Excess worker turnover (churning) and excess job reallocation have been low during the recession. The …
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