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, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. … recession and in its aftermath, including the sharp decline in labor force participation and informal employment that is unique … technologies introduced at the trough of the recession bolsters the recovery of GDP, total employment, and labor income, and leads …
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How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …
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register data - the IAB Employment Sample - we find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have …
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the US unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample forecasting comparison analyzing many models that adopt both our … the GI outperform the traditional ones in predicting the monthly unemployment rate, even in most state-level forecasts and … ; US Unemployment ; Time Series Models …
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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 … education gaps in employment between high and lower education levels would raise the employment rate in the EU for the year 2022 …
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This paper provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...
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Labor market institutions shape the return to workers’ skills. They define the incentives of firms and workers to invest in general and specific skills, affecting the returns to experience and tenure. This paper presents an empirical assessment of this hypothesis. We take advantage of rich...
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This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a second step, it reveals a distinct relationship between occupational work content and exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation (robots). Workers in occupations...
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), allowing for a more accurate measure of formal employment. It also measures whether socioemotional skills of beneficiaries … improved with program participation. The evaluation finds a high long term positive impact of Projoven on formal employment. It … also finds certain heterogeneity of program impacts across subpopulations. Impacts on formal employment vary depending on …
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and growing over time. There are no impacts on average employment, which is consistent with the low unemployment in … findings document significant impacts on the formality of employment, particularly for men, and impacts for both men and women … countries with high informality and no unemployment insurance. Looking at the local labor market context, the analysis suggests …
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