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People in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden work more than the countries’ high tax rates would lead us to predict. This observation is explained by a shared belief system that emphasises women’s rights to labour market participation.
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Pursuit of honest and truthful decision-making is crucial for governance and accountability in democracies. However, people sometimes take different perspectives of what it means to be honest and how to pursue truthfulness. Here we explore a continuum of perspectives from evidence-based...
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fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor … 2007, we provide empirical support for the factor proportions channel through which offshoring to labor …
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Niedriglohnländer gerecht zuwerden. So verspricht man sich vom sogenannten Offshoring-Konzept Qualitätssteigerungen,die Erschließung …
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of labour market attachment, such as participation, employment and wages, but also novel measures of labour market … effect. Results show that immigrant women are less likely to transition into employment - more likely to transition out of … employment to either unemployment or inactivity - and more likely to respond to income shocks than the Canadian born. There is …
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In the United States, the employment rate is nearly flat across wealth quintiles with the exception of the first … quintile. Correlations between wealth and employment are close to zero or moderately positive. However, incomplete markets … employment. Using a fairly standard incomplete markets model calibrated to match the distribution of wealth, I find that …
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We use Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey to explore the labor market impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Specifically, we adopt a unique identification strategy to examine the heterogeneous causal effects of the COVID-19 economic shutdown by governments on hours worked across the...
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in employment and aggregate hours worked between February 2020 and April 2020, while accounting for normal monthly … aged 20-64, alongside a 15 percent decline in employment. We characterize the distribution of work lost, finding that …
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80% of their pre-crisis level. Also, data suggest that the increase in employment in May 2020 is due to some of those … waiting to be recalled re-entering employment. These patterns suggest that a reasonably quick rebound of the labour market may …
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