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Population ageing poses stark dilemmas for labour markets, social protection systems and cultural norms. It will put strong downward pressure on labour supply, leading to falling real incomes and huge financial pressures on social protection systems unless there is an offsetting increase in...
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I study the impact of Canada's expansive immigration policy launched in 2016 on labour shortages in six regions of the …, and after the 2020-2021 pandemic. Since immigration not only expands the supply of labour, but also adds to the demand for …-sense belief that more immigration contributes to reducing economy-wide labour scarcity is wrong and constitutes a dangerous …
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effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …
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considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … immigration from different minority groups, as well as attitudes towards related concerns, like job security and benefit … expenditures. We specify and estimate a multiple factor model. The correlation between answers to questions on immigration and on …
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considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … immigration from different minority groups, as well as attitudes towards related concerns, like job security and benefit … expenditures. We specify and estimate a multiple factor model. The correlation between answers to questions on immigration and on …
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Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a...
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This paper critically reviews the research on the impact of immigration on employment and wages of natives in wealthy … investors. Possibly, skilled immigration boosts productivity and wages for many others. Around the averages, there are … than compete with them in production. Thus skilled immigration can offset the effects of low-skill immigration on natives …
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One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...
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The growing occurrence and significance of labour migration from Bangladesh has become an important area of interest in policy research. However, little attention has been given to understand and study the inadequacies in policy that support cross border movements within irregular migration....
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In addition to describing different countries labour market policies for people with disabilities, this study attempts to establish some initial benchmarks for comparing national policies in this respect for a number of OECD countries. The report systematically compares the countries in order to...
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