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decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …We examine the impact of COVID-19 on employment in South Korea as of June 2020. To estimate the causal effect, we use …
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This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … associated with employment growth. Process innovations may have a positive effect, but also have the potential to reduce the …
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advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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This paper studies the impact of research and development (R&D) and innovation on employment growth, focusing on small … and medium-sized firms. Employment effects of R&D and innovation are unclear a priori as process innovation may be labor … both R&D and innovation increased employment growth, suggesting that innovation was either capital-saving or labor had …
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, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of employment outcomes - including permanent layoffs, which generate large … examine how these employment patterns vary across different states, according to the timing and severity of virus caseloads … economic activity reduce employment rates concurrently, but do not seem to have lingering effects once relaxed. In contrast …
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answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important-but specific-function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …
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Employment responses to the COVID-19 crisis differed widely across German local labour markets at the beginning of the … months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets …
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