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The impact of robots in Latin America : evidence from local labor markets
Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023
in labor market indicators such us unemployment and labor informality. We document that robots mainly replace formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468031
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East German unemployment from a macroeconomic perspective
Rubart, Jens; Semmler, Willi - 2007
When reviewing the literature concerning the development of the Eastern German economy, a too rigid labor market and its respective institutions are considered as the main source of the persistent high unemployment rates and the slow economic performance. However, when important macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266886
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Interactions between employment and training policies
Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272951
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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to...
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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2021
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317366
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Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Meghir, Costas - 2021
simulations to understand how trade affects economic outcomes in the presence of informality. We show the following: 1) Trade … openness unambiguously decreases informality in the tradable sector but has ambiguous effects on aggregate informality. 2) The … even when informality is repressed. 4) Repressing informality increases productivity but at the expense of employment and …
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Minimum wage and informality in Ecuador
Canelas, Carla - 2014
This paper investigates if changes in the minimum wage have influenced changes on the formality and informality rates …
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Heterogeneous effects of minimum wage on labor market outcomes : a case study from Turkey
Işık, Enes; Orhangazi, Özgür; Tekgüç, Hasan - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/16, pp. 1-41
We assess the effects of a sharp minimum wage increase on wages, informality, and employment in Turkey, a large …
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The labor market effects of Venezuelan migration to Colombia : reconciling conflicting results
Lebow, Jeremy - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-49
are also larger in cities that have a higher baseline informality rate and lower ease of starting a business. …
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Active labour market programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean : evicence from a meta analysis
Escudero, Verónica; Kluve, Jochen; López Mourelo, Elva; … - 2017
We present a systematic collection and assessment of impact evaluations of active labour market programmes (ALMP) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper delineates the strategy to compile a novel meta database and provides a narrative review of 51 studies. Based on these studies,...
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