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, politicians, the media, and the public are worried about a lack of economic integration. Refugees start at a lower employment and …For the first time since the Second World War, the total number of refugees amounts to more than 50 million people …. Only a minority of these refugees seek asylum, and even fewer resettle in developed countries. At the same time …
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-middle income countries host 65 percent of the world’s refugees, mostly in urban settings. Whereas refugee camps provide access to …
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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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Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some evidence that the lower earnings are a result of...
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Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some evidence that the lower earnings are a result of...
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Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these …
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respect. The 2008 financial crisis had small effects on the Swedish labor market. Employment in industry declined sharply and … then remained stagnant, but employment in the service sectors has continued to grow steadily. …
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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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