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Bertrand, Marianne; Hsieh, Chang-tai; Tsivanidis, Nick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

India's Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) of 1947 requires firm with more than 100 workers to pay large costs if they shrink their employment. Since the early 2000s, large Indian manufacturing firms have increasingly relied on contract workers who are not subject to the IDA. By 2015, contract...

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Teenage Unemployment : Permanent Scars or Temporary Blemishes?

Ellwood, David T. - 1979

for Markov type persistence and a straight forward estimation technique results. In addition, a Sims type causality test …

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Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

Kvasnicka, Michael - 2008

Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our results show that workers who enter temporary help...

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Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000

Boeheim, Rene - 2007

Whereas there is widespread belief that workers in temporary help services (THS) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy, there is little evidence on whether that is driven by the sector per se or by the workers'...

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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?

Autor, David - 2005

The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...

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Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain

García-Pérez, J. Ignacio - 2016

By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...

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Outsourcing at Will : Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment

Autor, David H. - 2000

The U.S. temporary help services (THS) industry grew at 11 percent annually between 1979 to 1995, five times more rapidly than non-farm employment. Contemporaneously, courts in 46 states adopted exceptions to the common law doctrine of employment at will that limit employers' discretion to...

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The Evolution of the Demand for Temporary Help Supply Employment in the United States

Estevao, Marcello M. - 1999

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported an extraordinary increase in temporary help supply (THS) employment during the late 1980s and the 1990s. However, little is known about the venues where these THS employees actually work. Our estimates indicate that the proportion of THS employees in...

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Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy

Bisin, Alberto - 2019

dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich … administrative demographic data on the universe of marriages formed in Italy, as well as birth and separation records from 1995 to …, identifying marital selection and fertility choices as fundamental socialization mechanisms. The estimated cultural intolerance of …

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Estimation of a Stochastic Model of Reproduction : An Econometric Approach

Heckman, James J. - 1974

decision making to human fertility behavior. Theoretical emphasis has been given to the effects of the costs of parental tine … time, especially the value of the wife's time. One important objection to static theories of fertility is their failure to … theoretical and econometric model of fertility behavior within a sequential stochastic framework. The principal contribution of …

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