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finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the …
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This article introduces a political-economic framework for analyzing young people’s production of user-generated content (UGC) as a kind of apprenticeship labour. Based on case studies of four young Montréalers engaged in creating user-generated content, the author developed the...
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unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This …
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becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …
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This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …
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-dimensional process. Age ten conduct disorder predicts male adult unemployment particularly well but it is self-esteem that predicts male …
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We examine whether unemployment early in an individual's career influences her later employment prospects. We use six … years of the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohort variation in unemployment at school-leaving age to …
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The market is a place where people behave quite relentlessly. If one person is selling a particular commodity at a higher price than others, no one will buy that commodity from him, however virtuous or merciful he is known to be. Of course, the actual world does not always work exactly in this...
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In this paper we evaluate the labour market value of basic skills in the UK, focusing on the wage and employment returns to having better literacy and numeracy skills. We draw on literacy and numeracy assessments undertaken by all cohort members of the UK 1970 British Cohort Study. The data used...
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. Disaggregation by gender is necessary. Endogeneity of participation levels with respect to unemployment is treated in two ways, by … unemployment cannot be rejected. …
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