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agroprocessing activities accounts for only around 5% of total employment in the food economy. However, over the last two decades, it … translates into employment generation. Agroprocessing sectors in Ethiopia, Ghana and Tunisia differ greatly in terms of the size … has grown rapidly. In Ethiopia, Ghana and Tunisia, the agroprocessing sector exhibits high employment elasticities of …
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In this paper, we analyze firm demand for flexible jobs by exploiting the language used to describe work arrangements in job vacancies. We take a supervised machine learning approach to classify the work arrangements described in more than 46 million UK job vacancies. We highlight the existence...
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employment for different types of labour in manufacturing. The empirical model allows for endogeneity of the firm's innovation … market products is more important than any other measure of product innovation in determining the expected employment … graduates. Joint implementation of new products and new processes have a stronger impact on the employment expectations of …
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for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised …
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) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment …
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Current legislative proposals consider amendments to child labor laws for U.S. agriculture. Similar amendments, however, have been unsuccessful recently. Using the National Agricultural Workers Survey, we show that child labor is still substantial in the modern U.S. despite some decreases over...
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really is the case. This paper investigates whether employment growth in 'green' establishments with 'green' products and … analyzed. We use linked employment and regional data for Germany. The descriptive results show that the environmental sector is … characterized by disproportionately high employment growth. The application of both a generalized linear mixed model and an …
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households and firms. The extent to which this is associated with negative impacts on employment depends on the interrelationship … heterogeneous labor for the German manufacturing sector. We use administrative linked employer-employee micro data combined with …-skilled. Our estimates suggest that the announced increase of the EEG surcharge in 2014 would decrease overall employment in the …
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can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the … impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of working time, i.e. we examines the determinants of employment and …
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