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of the creation of employment, while the gap in productivity is getting ever wider. The explanation fundamentally stems …
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The Mexican economy experienced a geographical dispersion of the manufacturing sector localization that favored the northern border region and the states surrounding Mexico City during the period 1980-2003. The result was caused by the previous higher concentration and because of the economic...
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. Differences in labor taxation, unemployment benefit systems, and employment protection will need to be reduced. Improving …
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Over the last 15 years, the reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL) in European countries have mainly eased … hiring and firing restrictions for temporary employment while leaving the strict EPL provisions for regular or permanent …
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This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...
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An influential strand of recent research has claimed that large governments in European countries explain their weaker long-term economic performance compared to the U.S. On the other hand, despite these alleged costs, large governments have been popular with electorates. This paper seeks to...
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Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment … variables. Among such policies, direct subsidies to job creation were the most effective. ALMPs also affected employment rates …
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In this paper, we use a structural-geographical analysis to study the evolution of employment in 5 Swiss metropolitan … occurred in other metropolitan areas, employment increase was less than estimated by our model in almost all the branches of …. The relative weakness of the agglomeration effects on the employment in the Geneva-Lausanne area is to some extent related …
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In this paper we examine unemployment rate dispersion across the (statistical) regions in the Melbourne metropolitan area. We find that the level of dispersion is positively correlated with the unemployment rate in all the regions taken together and that the ‘elasticity’ of dispersion with...
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In this paper, we analyse the impact on domestic employment resulting from outward FDI performed by Spanish firms …, using industry data for the period 1995‐2011. Together with the effects on total employment, we differentiate the effects …
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