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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …
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immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …
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, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment … this general pattern. Between the mid-1980s and 2000 employment rates improved among young Americans in their late 20s and … early 30s, and earnings levels either remained stable or increased modestly. The stability of U.S. employment levels helped …
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It is well established that class and gender predict occupational placement across advanced industrialized countries. In exploratory analyses the authors document a third dimension to occupational segregation associated with family responsibilities, and consider explanations for cross- national...
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.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and … employment. The participation level is particularly important for inequality differences and there is persuasive evidence that … country attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper uses Luxembourg Income Study …
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in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
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rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …
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rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …
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in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
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