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low unemployment. But how did it fare during the recession, especially in Denmark, which has been highlighted as having a … employment in a recession. Did the high rate of job turnover continue or did long-term unemployment rise? And did the social …
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The frequency of labor inspections in Brazil increased in the late 1990s. In the years that followed, between 2003 and 2007, formal employment expanded significantly in the country. This paper examines whether these city-level changes in labor inspections could be a significant factor...
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unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify the supposed … unemployment controlling for the high correlation between immigration and goods flows in order to prevent an omitted variable bias … migration flows and the high persistence of unemployment. We find a significant effect of immigration on unemployment on average …
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Neither public opinion nor evidence-based research supports the claim of some politicians and the media that immigrants take the jobs of native-born workers. Public opinion polls in six migrant-destination countries after the 2008-2009 recession show that most people believe that immigrants fill...
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, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …
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in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to … unemployment and a channel for the government to influence markets through institutional changes. Labor market interventions … market reforms through higher wages. Lower labor costs reduce unemployment of the low-skilled and increases the reforming …
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We analyze the short-run impact of the introduction of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany on further training at the workplace level. Applying difference-in-difference methods to data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we do not find a reduction in the training incidence but a slight...
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We examine the effect of financial constraints on firms' employment growth. We use the maturing debt approach which uses the fact that the amount of long term credit maturing in a particular year can be considered as an exogenous financial constraint on firms’ employment decision in that year....
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