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agroprocessing activities accounts for only around 5% of total employment in the food economy. However, over the last two decades, it … translates into employment generation. Agroprocessing sectors in Ethiopia, Ghana and Tunisia differ greatly in terms of the size … has grown rapidly. In Ethiopia, Ghana and Tunisia, the agroprocessing sector exhibits high employment elasticities of …
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In this paper, we analyze firm demand for flexible jobs by exploiting the language used to describe work arrangements in job vacancies. We take a supervised machine learning approach to classify the work arrangements described in more than 46 million UK job vacancies. We highlight the existence...
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really is the case. This paper investigates whether employment growth in 'green' establishments with 'green' products and … analyzed. We use linked employment and regional data for Germany. The descriptive results show that the environmental sector is … characterized by disproportionately high employment growth. The application of both a generalized linear mixed model and an …
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households and firms. The extent to which this is associated with negative impacts on employment depends on the interrelationship … heterogeneous labor for the German manufacturing sector. We use administrative linked employer-employee micro data combined with …-skilled. Our estimates suggest that the announced increase of the EEG surcharge in 2014 would decrease overall employment in the …
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can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the … impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of working time, i.e. we examines the determinants of employment and …
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higher electricity prices. We examine the effect from changing electricity prices on manufacturing employment. Analyzing firm … employment more than less constrained firms. This implies a potentially mitigating role for monetary policy. …
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How important is imperfect competition in the product market for employment dynamics? To investigate this, we formulate … a theoretical model of employment adjustment with imperfect competition in the product market, search frictions, and … convex adjustment costs. From this model, we derive a structural equation for employment that we estimate on firm-level data …
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higher electricity prices. We examine the effect from changing electricity prices on manufacturing employment. Analyzing firm … employment more than less constrained firms. This implies a potentially mitigating role for monetary policy. …
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This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether … minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPS with a large share of low wage workers. Evidence … simulations suggest that a 10 percent increase could cause a 3.4 percent employment loss in the average CIP in California. The job …
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manufacturing industries; but raised the demand for high-skill workers, older workers and men|especially in service industries …
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