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Trends in employment and wages of female and male workers in India : a task-content-of-occupations approach
Sharma, Shruti - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 39 (2022) 1, pp. 169-199
This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male … occupations for most of the period of analysis. However, the analysis finds no consistent, significant changes in wages based on …
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Labor Market Reform Options to Boost Employment in South Africa
Duval, Romain; Shibata, Ippei; Ji, Yi - 2022
Raising South Africa’s low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP per capita by 50 to 60 percent and reduce income inequality dramatically in the long term. By putting further strain on an already fragile labor market, Covid-19 has raised...
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Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Naidoo, Karmen; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2015
This paper looks to uncover the growth traps and opportunities for the South African economy, with a focus on underlying labour market dynamics. We explore the potential of South Africa’s demographic dividend. We also consider the structure of the labour market and the growth-employment...
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Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes
Rees, Daniel I. - 2012
headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages …
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Asymmetric Wage Adjustment and Employment in European Firms
Marotzke, Petra - 2017
We explore the impact of wage adjustment on employment with a focus on the role of downward nominal wage rigidities. We use a harmonised survey dataset, which covers 25 European countries in the period 2010-2013. These data are particularly useful for this paper given the firm-level information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945757
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Asymmetric Wage Adjustment and Employment in European Firms
Marotzke, Petra - 2017
We explore the impact of wage adjustment on employment with a focus on the role of downward nominal wage rigidities. We use a harmonised survey dataset, which covers 25 European countries in the period 2010-2013. These data are particularly useful for this paper given the firm-level information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947585
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Policy brief: employer market power in Silicon Valley
Gibson, Matthew - 2021
Adam Smith alleged that secret employer collusion to reduce labor earnings is common. This paper examines an important case of such behavior: no-poach agreements through which technology companies agreed not to compete for each other's workers. Exploiting the plausibly random timing of a US...
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Do Small Firms Predict Their Employment Correctly? Causal Relationships between Firms' Employment, Wages, and Loans
Nosratabadi, Javad - 2023
by them. In addition, it examines the relationship between the amount of loan received by firms and wages. Empirically … there is a positive and significant relationship between the amount of loan invested by firms and wages …
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Multigenerational living arrangements among migrants
Flake, Regina - 2012
There is a significantly higher prevalence of multigenerational living arrangements among migrants than among natives in Germany which may be explained with migrants choosing this household structure in order to compensate for economic disadvantages. This hypothesis is tested by analyzing the...
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Cities, tasks and skills
Kok, Suzanne; Weel, Bas ter - 2014
This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while others require proximity. We construct a measure of task...
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