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The clock is ticking and time is running short for us to have a realistic chance to get climate change under control and prevent it becoming irreversible and selfsustaining. Phasing out coal is widely seen as a 'low hanging fruit' of climate policy commitments in the move towards a net zero...
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In this paper, we investigate the effects of offshoring on workers' job security using matched employer-employee data … from Sweden. For our observed period (1997-2011), while the share of firms engaged in offshoring fell during the period … from around 25% to 22%, offshoring per worker within offshoring firms almost doubled. We make use of this variation to …
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Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from offshoring fluctuate along the production … from offshoring even if relocating individual steps would be advantageous in terms of offshoring costs, or they may …
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The manufacturing industry in industrialised countries is often argued to servicify - use and sell more services - but knowledge is poor. We examine the phenomenon using detailed and com-prehensive micro level data at both the firm and enterprise group level for Sweden (1997-2006). We find that...
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Economists have examined the impact of labor market regulations on the level of employment. However, there are many reasons to suspect that the impact of regulations differs across types of workers. In this paper we take advantage of the unusually large variance in labor policy in Chile to...
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shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
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newcomers. This social phenomenon and affects wages and unemployment. We show that the growth in the unemployment and social …
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This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …
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.1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men … government expenditures would have amounted to 264 million Euros per year. Due to higher unemployment insurance claims and …
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