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This study investigates the employment and wage disparities between people with and without disabilities. It shows that …, the potentially greater job flexibility offered by self-employment, and discrimination against people with disabilities …
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The Brussels Effect, once emblematic of the EU's alleged influence in shaping global regulations, has now become a factor contributing to global regulatory fragmentation. The EU must recalibrate its trajectory towards a liberal and rules-based trading order, prioritizing widespread regulatory...
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computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …
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The aim of this paper is to examine the issues of gender disparities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region, with a special focus given to countries covered by the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)1. The analysis is conducted in several dimensions: labour participation,...
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understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 … bicycles for 2005-06 an attempt is made to find out the factors which constrain employment generation in labour intensive firms …. The study shows several constraints in the path of employment generation in labour intensive sectors-non-availability of …
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of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after acquisition. Our …
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We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether...
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