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Interest in the topic of well-being has burgeoned in recent years as the weaknesses of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita as a proxy for well-being have become more apparent. At the same time, the global economy has experienced a productivity slowdown. Since productivity growth is...
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Statistical evidence from 58 countries shows that although people in rural areas are more likely to be in employment …
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This paper compares the employment status and earnings of veterans and nonveterans following their receipt of public … Outreach Program and Local Veterans Employment Representative). Employment rates of veterans after program receipt are … substantially lower than those for nonveterans. Meanwhile, average earnings are slightly higher, conditional on employment. These …
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, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …
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participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … index increases the probability of salaried employment by 6.5 percentage points, and leads to a 9.5 percent higher per … capita expenditure. Employment transitions happen from daily wage employment and self-employment to salaried employment. The …
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"Time for Things seeks an answer to the question of why, in mature industrial capitalist societies, increasing productivity has tended to get used to increase output and consumption as opposed to reducing the burden of work. Put simply, why do we live in a world so full of goods, many of which...
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