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., that women's participation is falling due unavailability of steady gainful employment. The high unemployment rate and … industry-wise composition of total employment provide suggestive evidence that women's participation is falling as women are … likely to be displaced from employment by male workers. We show that women's employment is likely to suffer more than men …
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labour demand. We find that female employment is highly responsive to local labour demand, but not male employment. The … stagnant employment creation from 2004-05 onwards. Our analysis suggests that India needs to focus on creating rural non …
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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the … estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment decision as well as the … decision to use paid child care among single mothers. The model distinguishes between the full-time and part-time employment …
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We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the balances in these accounts would then be available to...
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construct a novel dataset that links worker employment histories to firm financials and banking relationships in Germany. Firms … relative contraction in credit supply, associated with lower average wages and employment. These effects are heterogeneous … within and between firms. Within firms, initially lower-paid workers are more likely to leave employment, while initially …
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formal employment in Mexico. We use a detailed dataset containing loan-level information for all loans extended by commercial … demand shocks. Then, we use employment registry data to compare changes in the number of formal workers registered by small … large impact on formal employment: a positive credit shock of one standard deviation increases yearly employment growth by 0 …
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creating incentives for the population to enter formal employment. However, empirical evidence on labour supply elasticities in … the presence of informal employment remains scarce. This paper analyses female labour supply behaviour and the choice … between formal and informal employment in Ecuador, a middle-income country characterized by persistent levels of informal …
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; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect …
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employment stability enjoyed by workers. This implies that in Italy women with highly protected and stable jobs find it easier to …
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wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation between …
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