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equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage …
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in terms of high growth and high share in total employment in recent times. It is observed that women employment is … the new economy a trade-off is observed between women employment expansion and their wage condition. There also exists an … established sector where women have traditionally been accepted and are having stable employment and wage condition. In few …
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Arent and Nagl (2013) use the BA Employment panel 1998-2007 to identify effects of the German Hartz reform. Their … findings suggest that the reform caused a considerable reduction of wages. Our replication of their study suggests that their … development of wages is investigated based on a finer time grid. Further methodological considerations put into question whether …
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channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The results …
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maintain high levels of employment and participation rates, especially among female and older workers, and to reduce structural …
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employment of unfair dismissal laws. The report also provides a discussion of the evidence on the welfare effects of unfair …
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This paper analyzes recent labor market developments in the Chilean economy. The evidence shows a booming labor market with strong job creation since 2010. Most of the jobs created during the past three years are quality jobs—that is, jobs with a written contract and whose employers have made...
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the effect of increased demand for skilled workers has mainly increased their employment rather than their wages. … technology and demand factors. The linked worker-plant data are produced by matching workers in the Employment Statistics … database to the plants in the Census of Manufacturing. The employment statistics database is utilised to procure an alternative …
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We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task- assignment model … downward pressure on all wages through domestic skill-task reallocation. If elasticities of task substitution are low (high …), the downward pressure on wages in neighboring skill segments is low (high) with a net effect of higher (lower) wages and …
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overestimates the impact of skills by 100 per cent. Given that past growth has been shown to be one of the main drivers of current … support the direction from skills to growth, abating potential reverse causality concerns. …
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