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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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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009

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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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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Does employment protection affect unemployment? : a meta-analysis

Heimberger, Philipp - 2020

unemployment remains unclear. Existing econometric estimates exhibit substantial variation, and it is therefore difficult to draw … observations on the effect of EPL on unemployment from 75 studies. Once we control for publication selection bias, we cannot reject … the hypothesis that the average effect of EPL on unemployment is zero. The meta-regression analysis, which investigates …

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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 …

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Law, skills and the creation of jobs as "contract" work in India : exploring survey data to make inferences for labour law reform

Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; … - 2016

The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of "contract labour" in Indian formal manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms of adjustment in response to demand and...

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Who is afraid of machines?

Blanas, Sotiris; Gancia, Gino Alessandro; Lee, Sang Yoon - 2019

We study how various types of machines, namely, information and communication technologies, software, and especially industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age, and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in the composition of workers across countries,...

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Automation and future of garment sector jobs : a case study of India

Vashisht, Pankaj; Rani, Nisha - 2019

Robotics has been redefining the production process across manufacturing industries, raising serious concern about the future of jobs and the garment sector is not isolated. The recent innovations such as "Sewbot" along with other Computer Numeric Control machines have increased the risk of...

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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 …

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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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