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Productivity and employment in APAC economies : a comparison with the EU using firm-level information

Di Mauro, Filippo; Hoang, Minh Duy; Morgan, Peter J. - 2021

This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our...

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Fixed-term and permanent employment contracts: Theory and evidence

Cao, Shutao; Shao, Enchuan; Silos, Pedro - 2010

This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment with ex ante identical workers and employers. Workers under fixed-term contracts can be dismissed at no cost while permanent employees enjoy labor protection. In a labor market...

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Unemployment: The silent epidemic

Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2017

This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment-its propagation mechanism and socioeconomic costs. It identifies a … mechanism and the existing pecuniary and nonpecuniary costs of unemployment suggests a fundamental shift in the policy responses … effects of unemployment. The paper discusses several preventative features of the program. …

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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When does improving health raise GDP?

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Lester, Ashley; Weil, David N. - 2008

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation,...

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Skill formation, employment discrimination, and wage inequality : evidence from the People's Republic of China

Wang, Jun; Liao, Chengjuan; Wan, Xuan; Song, Hui - 2021

This paper studies the impact of skill formation on employment opportunities and wages. Instead of international trade theory or technological progress theory, the paper focuses on labor "skill formation" to investigate the employment discrimination and skill wage inequality in the Chinese labor...

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Aging and inequality : the perspective of labor income share

Wang, Chen; Wan, Guanghua; Luo, Zhi; Zhang, Xun - 2017

Despite a growing literature on population aging, empirical studies exploring mechanisms between aging and income inequality are scarce. This paper estimates the impact of aging on inequality via the perspective of labor income share, based on cross-country information covering the period...

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The differential effects of technology and trade on female and male workers in India

Sharma, Shruti - 2019

This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers based on whether they have routine manual, routine...

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Labor supply of older workers in Thailand: the role of co-residence, health, and pensions

Sasiwimon Warunsiri Paweenawat; Liao, Lusi - 2021

During the last few decades, the composition of the Thai population has changed dramatically due to reduced fertility and the aging of the population. Thailand's aging society faces many challenges. This is particularly so for older Thai people who still have to work for a living due to...

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