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people working in various creative occupations-is estimated to contribute nearly 8% of the country's employment, much higher …
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Swedish labor market has adopted well to technological change, as it exhibits stable employment rates and steady wage growth …
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Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational...
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This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … self-employment and formal salaried jobs, suggesting the existence of barriers to this type of mobility or a strong …
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In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...
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depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …
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East Germany underwent rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel Data 1990-1997 to study wage...
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I analyze how general practitioners (GPs) indirectly affect their patients' employment outcomes by deciding on the … only certified because a worker's GP has a high propensity to certify sick leaves - decreases employment probabilities …: Whenever medically justifiable, it may be beneficial to certify shorter sick leaves in order to protect employment status of …
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The challenge of employment in the Indian economy, especially after it growth acceleration since the mid-1980s, relates … to its quality rather than its quantity. While employment growth has kept pace with the labour force over the long run …, what has grown is informal employment. The coexistence of rapid capital accumulation, robust output growth and lack of …
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