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Working-week flexibility : implications for employment and productivity

Osune, Victoria - 2014

on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … higher degree of flexibility in weekly hours. The 2012 reform is found to preserve employment and generate a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

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Values and labor force participation in the Nordic countries

Hall, Axel; Gylfi Zoega - 2014

The Nordic countries are known for their success in combining an extensive welfare state with high labor force participation. This is explained by the origins and organization of their welfare states, which can be traced to a set of values and beliefs that emphasize the right of women to...

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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?

Earle, John S. - 2014

employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

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Trade liberalization and gender inequality : can free-trade policies help to reduce gender inequalities in employment and wages?

Pieters, Janneke - 2015

Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men. While economic empowerment of women is an important objective in itself, women's economic activity also matters as a condition for sustained economic growth. The political debate on the labor market impacts of...

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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy : happiness is key to a productive economy, and a job is key to individual happiness

Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015

the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and …

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Innovation and employment : technological unemployment is not inevitable - some innovation creates jobs, and some job destruction can be avoided

Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for...

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Offshoring and the migration of jobs : offshoriing has little net effect on domestic employment, while pushing domestic workers toward more complex jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2015

The impact of offshoring on domestic jobs is more complicated than it first appears. In the standard narrative, offshoring production is thought to harm domestic workers by providing cheap alternative sources of labor. However, while offshoring may directly displace domestic workers, the...

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Should the earned income tax credit rise for childless adults? : the earned income tax credit raises income and work incentives among low-income parents but little goes to adults without children

Holzer, Harry J. - 2015

wages and employment rates have been declining for years and who might benefit substantially from expanded eligibility for …

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Consequences of the obesity epidemic for immigrants : when migrants move to countries with high obesity rates, does assimilation lead to labor market penalties and higher health care costs?

Argys, Laura M. - 2015

Upon arrival in a host country, immigrants often have lower obesity rates (as measured for instance by BMI-body mass index) than their native counterparts do, but these rates converge over time. In light of the worldwide obesity epidemic and the flow of immigrants into host countries with higher...

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Do migrants take the jobs of native workers? : migrants rarely take native workers' jobs, and they boost employment effects in the long term

Constant, Amelie - 2014

levels - do not significantly affect native employment in the short term and boost employment in the long term. …

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