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Labour market policies, strategies and statistics for people with disabilities: A cross-national comparison
Bergeskog, Anders - 2001
target group's labour force participation and employment rate; (2) what labour market programmes are applied and to what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321077
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Black employment trends since the Great Recession
Masterson, Thomas - 2018
The Great Recession had a devastating impact on labor force participation and employment. This impact was not unlike … unusual pattern of recovery in employment by race. The black employment-population ratio has increased since bottoming out in … 2010, while the white employment-population ratio has remained flat. This paper examines trends in labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142962
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Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011
inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
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Does privatisation of vocational rehabilitation improve labour market opportunities? Evidence from a field experiment in Sweden
Jönsson, Lisa; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012
individuals on long-term sickness absence. We use a field experiment performed by the Employment Service and the Social Insurance … rehabilitation. We find no differences in employment rates following rehabilitation between individuals who received rehabilitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321163
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Trading with Asia's Giants
Bosworth, Barry; Collins, Susan M.; Flaaen, Aaron - 2008
The United States' large and sustained trade deficit with Asia raises concerns in the United States about its competitiveness in the region. The purpose of this paper is to examine the patterns of U.S. trade relationships with China and India, and the factors that are influencing their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807626
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On the Persistence of Job Creation in Old and New Firms
Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
We suggest a new method to analyze the success of firm creation by looking at the persistence of new jobs created in old and in new firms. Compared to survival rates of new versus old firms, this measure has the advantage that the sustainability of job creation in different circumstances is...
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How to Measure Segregation Conditional on the Distribution of Covariates
Åslund, Olof; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2007
This short paper proposes a non-parametric method of accounting for the distribution of background characteristics when testing for segregation in empirical studies. It is shown and exemplified - using data on workplace segregation between immigrants and natives in Sweden - how the method can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321592
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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2010
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336063
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Will I see you at work? Ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden 1985 - 2002
Åslund, Olof; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2005
We study ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden using linked employer-employee data covering the entire working-age Swedish population during 1985–2002. Segregation is measured as overexposure to a particular group, taking into account the distribution of human capital, industry and geography....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317934
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Workplace size and sickness absence transitions
Lindgren, Karl-Oskar - 2012
This study examines how workplace size relates to transitions in- and out-of sickness absence. Overall, the study finds important differences in the long-term sickness absence behavior of individuals working in small and large workplaces. In particular, the results show that the sickness spells...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321133