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We develop a model in which competition in the labor market may produce worker-firm matches that are inferior to those obtained in the absence of competition. This result contrasts with the conventional wisdom that competition among employers allocates scarce talent efficiently. In a model in...
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In this paper, I use Colombian data from 1996-2013 to construct two datasets that are used to assess whether the China … outside Latin America. The results validate that the China Shock has significant effects on future growth rates for employment … is affected by the China Shock, the future growth rates of export performance and informality are not. …
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China is experiencing population ageing caused by a rapidly declining fertility rate and increased life expectancy … circumstances, China’s shrinking population will shave off 1.4 percent from GDP growth annually. These results, however, do not take … into account the impact of population aging on labour productivity. China’s fast move towards robotisation and artificial …
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This paper uses the sudden surge in Chinese competition faced by Brazil's manufacturers in the 2000s to revisit the findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period of massive trade opening in the early 1990s in Latin...
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enterprises in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), a major centre of foreign-invested export industry in China. The paper starts with a … brief review of the occupational health and safety legislation in China. The authors analyse a database comprising more than … legal situation of occupational health in China and the practical situation of occupational injuries as experienced by …
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this group for societal changes and population health in China. This also concerns the influence of migrant workers … obvious significance for population health in China, there is no systematic burden of disease (BoD) assessment available for … detailed description should highlight the most important disease patterns in the general population in this age group in China …
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processes in three Asian countries (China, India and Indonesia) and on three different issues: violence against women, domestic …
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