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The path through : early COVID-19 job loss and labour market trajectories in Austria
Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2024
the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …
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Imposition of MAT on SEZs : concerns and the way forward
Mukherjee, Arpita; Bhardwaj, Bhavook - 2016
A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a type of managed industrial cluster which focuses on exports and encourages the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and technology. These "special" zones are given a range of fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, which are not available to firms located in the...
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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024
This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
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Moral costs, the informal sector and unemployment
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001
, sector division, unemployment and welfare. …
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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446155
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The macroeconomic effects of a carbon tax to meet the U.S. Paris Agreement target: the role of firm creation and technology adoption
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2021
externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of … consumption and output; a marginal increase in the unemployment and labor force participation rates; and an expansion in the … accompanied by gradual gains in output and consumption and a negligible expansion in unemployment. Critically, abstracting from …
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Labor market and macroeconomic dynamics in Latin America amid COVID : the role of digital adoption policies
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Nuguer, Victoria - 2022
, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …
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Labour regulations and growth of manufacturing and employment in India : balancing protection and flexibility
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2015
are collective dismissal, fixed term contracts, contract labour, trade unions and unemployment insurance. Although the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516697
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Creating manufacturing jobs in India : has openness to trade really helped?
Vashisht, Pankaj - 2015
After following inward oriented economic policies for nearly four decades, India opened up to international trade in the early 1990s. Since then, the trade integration of the Indian economy in general and the manufacturing sector in particular has increased phenomenally. Against this backdrop,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281276
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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and labour market flexibility : an exploratory assessment of contract labour use in India's formal manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Singh, Jaivir - 2015
One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...
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