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This paper uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant … COVID-19 on health workers. It examines the relevant issues under the lens of a health labor market. In particular, the … paper interprets this information and knowledge by focusing on the supply, demand, and mismatches in a health labor market …
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The paper was produced as a background paper on labor issues for the UNDP study Convergence to the European Union …: Challenges and Opportunities. It first looks at the issue of how the labor market institutions of an acceding country like … and the failures of the labor market reform efforts of the new member states are discussed to give some guidance to the …
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The paper was produced as a background paper on labor issues for the UNDP study "Convergence to the European Union …: Challenges and Opportunities." It first looks at the issue of how the labor market institutions of an acceding country like … and the failures of the labor market reform efforts of the new member states are discussed to give some guidance to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936192
. Still, for 22 months between two important Supreme Court rulings, labor and product markets were relatively free of … minimum hourly wage rates and restrictions on workweeks and required firms to recognize the right of labor to organize ….The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), better known as the Wagner Act, was passed shortly after the Schechter ruling as a means …
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monopsonistic characteristics in the labor markets. In this article, I estimate the effects of the minimum wage for the United … States under concentrated labor markets and low-mobility jobs (two variables that measure monopsony), identify heterogeneous ….05. The minimum wage has a positive insignificant effect between 0.04 and 0.29 under full monopsonistic labor markets. The …
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This paper examines whether the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment, a labor market … intermediation program adopted by the Algerian government in 2008, reduced the informality of employment in Algeria. Using repeated … results show that the Action Plan has in fact contributed to reducing employment informality in such enterprises, but with …
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This paper examines whether the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment, a labor market … intermediation program adopted by the Algerian government in 2008, reduced the informality of employment in Algeria. Using repeated … results show that the Action Plan has in fact contributed to reducing employment informality in such enterprises, but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948602
economies) may not be effective in the current crisis and argues that they should instead be implemented alongside labor market … policies such as work sharing programs.The use of active labor market policies was critical during the global financial crisis … pursued since the Great Depression, by contrast the German economy, having implemented active labor market policies such as …
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aversion, we next examine how licensing impacts key labor market outcomes, such as wages, hours worked, and employment in the … other labor market institutions that also are more prevalent in the public sector such as unionization. Overall, our …
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In response to COVID-19 most governments used some form of lockdown policy to manage the pandemic. This required making iterative policy decisions in a rapidly changing epidemiological environment resulting in varying levels of lockdown stringency over time. While studies estimating the labour...
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