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This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
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Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … enforced remains to be seen. For the time being, de facto employment protection is far less than de jure, with an enduring … wages, nor are they effectively enforced. During the recent slowdown, average wages adjusted rapidly and employment was soon …
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on natives' wages and employment. If immigrants are relatively good substitutes for native workers, the impact of …
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we explain several stylized facts on the labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and … targeting reducing inflation rates would also help to reduce unemployment rates in Sudan. Keywords Labour market; employment …
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We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … datasets for a large cross-section of developing and advanced countries. Regressions of either private-sector employment rates … or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that high rates …
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on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …
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evil. Two other issues that have often been sidelined are Lack of Regular employment (Underemployment or Semi …-Open Unemployment SOU), and Lack of Adequate Returns from jobs (incidence of poverty among more or less regular workers or Non-Employment …
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. The present paper examines the veracity of this by examining the trends in employment and earnings in this sector over the … nineties and analysing the factors affecting them. Most of the employment expansion has been in the unorganised sector where … wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly …
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on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …
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Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The...
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