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We analyse the effects of imports on employment and earnings by distinguishing between import competition in final … products and firms' use of imports in production (offshoring). We use Finnish worker-firm data merged with product-level trade … occupations. An increase in import competition has larger negative effects than an increase in offshoring. Production workers …
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We analyse the effects of imports on employment and earnings by distinguishing between import competition in final … products and firms' use of imports in production (offshoring). We use Finnish worker-firm data merged with product-level trade … occupations. An increase in import competition has larger negative effects than an increase in offshoring. Production workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524964
labor informality, defined as lack of social protection related to employment, remained with few changes in the 1990s, there …
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This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using a unique Finnish data set on sentences and punishments merged with the longitudinal population census for 1990-2007. The rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the...
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We study changes in employment by occupations characterized by different degree of exposure to routinization in the six …
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induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We find that a 1-hour increase in weekly sleep increases employment by 1 …
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induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We find that a 1-hour increase in weekly sleep increases employment by 1 …
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In the midst of a serious macroeconomic crisis Argentina implemented a large social program – the Programa Jefes de Hogar (PJH) – that provides cash transfers to unemployed household heads meeting certain criteria. In practice, giving the difficulties in monitoring informal jobs, the...
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empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a … difference-in-difference-in-differences approach. Our results indicate that the subsidy system had no effects on the employment … rate. However, it appears to have increased the probability of part-time workers obtaining full-time employment. …
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