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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998
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 Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997
Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000
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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Explaining the contractualisation of India's workforce
Kapoor, Radhicka; Krishnapriya, P. P. - 2019
The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last … has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to India's rigid employment protection legislation. Using plant level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099540
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Offshoring, employment and wages
Bramucci, Alessandro - 2016
"offshoring", and provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of intermediate imported inputs on employment and wages in … results of the econometric analysis. Results suggest that offshoring has a general negative impact on employment and wages … offshoring on domestic labor demand and wages. The second section of the paper presents offshoring trends and discusses the …
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Informing employees in small and medium sized firms about training: Results of a randomized field experiment
Van den Berg, Gerard J.; Dauth, Christine; Homrighausen, Pia - 2020
of the program, on take-up of WeGebAU and other training,and on subsequent employment. The bRochure more than doubles …
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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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International Trade and Labor Market - Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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Technological change and the Swedish labor market
Graetz, Georg - 2020
Swedish labor market has adopted well to technological change, as it exhibits stable employment rates and steady wage growth …
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The wage-productivity gap revisited: Is the labour share neutral to employment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2010
investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages … stylised labour demand equation and show that the labour share is a driving force of employment. We substantiate our analytical … exposition by providing empirical models of wage setting and employment equations for France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the …
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India's participation in global value chains and some implications for economic and social upgrading: A case study of the automobile sector
Jha, Praveen K.; Kumar, Dinesh - 2021
This paper maps the integration of India's automobile sector in the context of the structural transformation of contemporary capitalism, in particular with reference to what is variously described as Global Commodity Chains, Global Value Chains, Global Supply Chains etc. It explores the multiple...
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