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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …
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The Swedish employment rate is high in an international comparison and has been rising during recent decades. This … survey in this report suggests that the main drivers of the high and rising Swedish employment rates can be found in policies …
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) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … participation; (iii) subsidised employment seems to cause displacement of regular employment, whereas this appears not to be the …) in the 1990s, training programmes seem not to have enhanced the employment probabilities of participants, whereas some …
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losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however …
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The recent shift to remote work raised the amenity value of employment. As compensation adjusts to share the amenity …
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I find here that the early and mid-aughts (2001 to 2007) witnessed both exploding debt and a consequent 'middle-class squeeze.' Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s. It grew even faster in the aughts, while the inequality of net worth was up slightly. Indebtedness, which fell...
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This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...
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