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We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...
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We estimate the effect of active labour-market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non … largest for subsidized employment programmes, but effects are also large and significant for direct employment programmes and … illustrated by calculating effects on the duration to regular employment over a five-year period. …
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employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were … income as a result of the law. -- minimum wage ; South Africa ; wage ; employment ; hours of work …
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affects earnings and educational success. But, most strikingly, it affects employment and physical health. In advanced …
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In this paper we analyze empirically different specifications of a sample selection model. We are interested in how the estimates vary across alternative assumptions concerning the joint conditional distribution of the sample selection equation errors, such us the specification of error...
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consideration that the majority of young people are not even on the labor market but still completing their education. Nonetheless … professional training, employment prospects are not as poor as in those focusing predominantly on educational qualifications …. Practical vocational training is obviously a potential tool for creating better job prospects for young Germany, the fact that …
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for the design of selected labor market policies including unemployment compensation, employment services and job search …
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This study aims to examine the characteristics of unemployment and migration of labor in the Northeastern of Thailand and to study the unemployment problems faced by local workers. The samples used in the study were 455 unemployed workers in Khon Kaen province, that is, 204 male and 251 female...
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This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees, makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...
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unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … employment relationships or self-employed or less happy than their non-displaced counterparts. We also look at health and psychic … migrants among the displaced experience a lowered incidence of self-employment. Also, health costs and psychic costs can be …
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