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To work or not to work? Effects of temporary public employment on future employment and benefits
Mörk, Eva; Ottosson, Lillit; Vikman, Ulrika - 2021
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment in the City of Stockholm. Having access to rich high-quality individual-level administrative data, we apply dynamic inverse probability weighting, proposed by Van den Berg and...
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Did PLAs on LA affordable housing projects raise construction costs?
Philips, Peter; Littlehale, Scott - 2015
The cost of building nine affordable housing projects in Los Angeles under the terms of a project labor agreement between the years 2008 and 2012 are compared to 121 affordable housing projects developed and built in the same time period and same area without project labor agreement...
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Recruitment to sheltered employment: Evidence from Samhall, a Swedish state-owned company
Skedinger, Per; Widerstedt, Barbro - 2003
This paper analyses recruitment practices to Samhall, a state-owned company that provides sheltered employment for … into conflict with the recruitment goals, resulting in cream skimming effects. The job security offered at the company may … employer of last resort for the most disabled. <p> The evidence regarding cream skimming is mixed; the recruitment …
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Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery
Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Vincent Lyk-Jensen, … - 2014
Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to serve for lower wages, and those with higher opportunity costs may be forced to serve regardless, yet little is known about the distribution of this burden. We exploit the Danish...
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Wages and the Great War: Evidence from the largest draft lottery in history
Caprettini, Bruno; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023
Do veterans earn less? During WW I, the US organized "the greatest human lottery in history": a random draft of 24 million men. Ultimately, 2.8 million Americans were selected to join the armed forces. We sample 10% of registrants of the 1917 lottery and match these men with the 1930 and 1940 US...
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Human capital dynamics and the U.S. labor market
Fang, Lei; Nie, Jun - 2014
The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors influencing either the demand side or the supply side of the labor market. However, no matter what factors have caused the changes in the unemployment rate, these factors should...
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...
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The Employment Potential of Labor Intensive Industries in India's Organized Manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India … (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for 97 industries at the 4-digit disaggregate level was computed for … the period 1990-91 to 2003-04. The study identifies 31 industries as 'labor intensive industries' within India's organized …
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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India's organized manufacturing in order to …
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The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms: Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships
Albanese, Andrea; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Leonardi, Marco - 2017
This paper estimates the causal effects of the 2003 reform of the Italian apprenticeship contract which aimed at introducing the "dual system" in Italy by allowing on-the-job training. The reform also increased the age eligibility of the apprenticeship contract and introduced a minimum floor to...
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