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Discouraged worker effect and labor market behavior of urban married women
Tayal, Deeksha; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 2, pp. 93-122
The study investigates the importance of poor local labor market conditions in explaining the labor market behavior of married women in urban India. Using nationally representative employment data, we empirically test for the existence of a discouraged worker effect arising from either of two...
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Job creation in tight and slack labor markets
Buchheim, Lukas; Watzinger, Martin; Wilhelm, Matthias - 2019
large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and …
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline - 2018
This paper provides a robust estimation of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment … various covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces unemployment rate. This finding is robust to …: deregulation of State controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment rate. Labour …
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Can placement of governmental sector jobs spur private sector employment and performance?
Dale-Olsen, Harald; Schøne, Pål - 2020
Hospitals are under increasing pressure as they bear a growing burden of chronic disease while also dealing with emergency cases that do not all require hospital care. Many countries have responded by introducing alternative facilities that provide 24/7 care for basic and medium-complexity...
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New economic policy and regional disparity : women employment perspective
Choudhry, Sonam; Aggarwal, Vani - In: Journal of social and economic development 16 (2014) 1, pp. 15-36
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Regional disparities in employment of high-skilled foreigners : determinants and options for migration policy in Germany
Burkert, Carola; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2007
We investigate the regional disparities in high-skilled foreign employment in Germany. The importance of different factors which attract highly qualified migrants to specific regions and the role of labour-migration policy is analysed. Our results show that labour-market variables as well as the...
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Regional convergence analysis for skill-specific employment groups : conference paper
Werner, Daniel - 2013 - This version: 1st March 2013, Preliminary
In most of the developed countries the number of low-skilled workers decreased and the number of high-skilled workers increased. However, it is far from clear whether and how this change in the skill composition of the employees affects the evolution of regional employment disparities....
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The Dynamics of Local Employment in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Magnac, Thierry; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2021
We study the impact of local economic structure on employment dynamics. Local employment is decomposed into the product of the average plant size and the number of plants in the area and industry. We estimate the dynamics of both components simultaneously using French yearly data on 36...
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Adjustments of local labour markets to the COVID-19 crisis : the role of digitalisation and working-from-home
Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2022
months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets …
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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, June 2004
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2004
This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …
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