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Inafuku, Rachel - 2022

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Devotion or deprivation: did catholicism retard french development?

Kelly, Morgan - 2021

lowest industrial employment in 1901, and concludes that Catholicism retarded development. However, because the richest …

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The effects of cancer in the English labour market

Candon, David - 2014

The continued rise in overall cancer survival rates has ignited a field of research which examines the effect that cancer has on survivors' employment. Previous estimates of the effect of cancer on labour market outcomes, using U.S. data, show a significant reduction in employment and hours of...

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Artisanal skills, watchmaking, and the Industrial Revolution : Prescot and beyond

Cummins, Neil; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019

The role of skills and human capital during England's Industrial Revolution is the subject of an old but still ongoing debate. This paper contributes to the debate by assessing the artisanal skills of watchmakers and watch tool makers in southwest Lancashire in the eighteenth century and their...

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Caught in the cycle : economic conditions at enrollment and labor market outcomes of college graduates

Bičáková, Alena; Cortes, Guido Matias; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020

We find robust evidence that cohorts of graduates who enter college during worse economic times earn higher average wages than those who enter during better times. This difference is not explained by differences in economic conditions at the time of college graduation, changes in field of study...

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Does immigration help alleviate economy-wide labour shortages?

Fortin, Pierre - 2024

I study the impact of Canada's expansive immigration policy launched in 2016 on labour shortages in six regions of the country, particularly in Quebec, which enjoys some autonomy of management in this area. I look at movements of the Beveridge curve, which draws the classical inverse relation...

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Untangling labour shortages in Europe : unmet skill demand or bad jobs?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Russo, Giovanni; Santangelo, Giulia - 2024

Based on unique data from the second wave of the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey (ESJS2), this study examines the drivers of labour shortages in European labour markets. Detailed information on foundation, digital, manual, and interpersonal job-skill requirements in European labour...

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A new measure of stereotypes in the workplace

Bajziková, Stanislava; Cing, Lubomír - 2020

sample of 100 students from the majority population. We also estimate the role of statistical discrimination, taste …-based discrimination, and the contact hypothesis. Our results show small but significant mistreatment of the Roma. The choice to (not) have … a Roma in a team seems to be driven by tastes, while the role of statistical discrimination and the contact hypothesis …

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Are economics conferences gender-neutral? : evidence from Ireland

Samahita, Margaret; Devereux, Kevin - 2022

We study gender inequality in conference acceptance using data from the Irish Economic Association annual conference from 2016 to 2022, exploiting the introduction of anonymised submission in 2021 to study the effect of blinding. While no gender gap is observed in the organisers' acceptance...

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Statistical discrimination in a search equilibrium model: racial wage and employment disparities in the US

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