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the World Trade Organization (WTO). We find that more exposure to export expansion improved individuals' formal employment …Does export lead to improvement in labor market outcomes? The answer to this is not always clear from the literature …. Despite the rising role of export markets, informality is still high, and inequality is worsening in many developing economies …
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shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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. Concomitantly, employment falls between 1½ and 5% depending on hurricane strength. On the other hand, the effects of hurricanes on … better examine the specific shocks, we also observe sectoral employment shifts. Finally, we conduct a time-series analysis … and find that over time, there is somewhat of a cobweb with earnings and employment rising and falling each quarter over a …
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Almost two years after the publication of the "Integrated Review", the British government has updated its security strategy. This "refresh" is primarily intended to adapt to the rapidly advancing development towards a contested and fragmented global order. Without indicating a radical shift, the...
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Global growth has slowed down recently. While the world economy should gradually regain pace over the coming quarters, overall growth momentum is expected to remain subdued. The recent drop in oil prices has not improved the outlook as it to a substantial degree signals weaker demand;...
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During the first half of the year global growth remained sluggish. While activity in emerging economies stabilized, growth in advanced economies softened. Over the next two years, we expect the world economy to pick up pace gradually, although without turning into a strong synchronized global...
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; secondly, wage compression is linked to labor market outcomes in terms of employment. Compressed wage structure (usually caused …
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no significant relationship with employment, there is also statistically significant negative association with retail … increase first, or more directly, by reducing payroll rather than employment. While the economic significance of these results …
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Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job …
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government funded Public Employment Service through which those eligible would get an establishment plan and a coach. The reform … was motived by concern over the low employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the … permit. Outcomes are measured in terms of employment and earnings in 2012 for the treatment group and in 2011 for the …
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