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In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective bargaining framework than the UK. This paper describes the dramatic developments and their consequences. Like Gaul, it is in three parts. The first part charts the six major pieces of legislation –...
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The resurgence of strikes in the non-union fast food and retail sectors has created unprecedented momentum for increases in state, local, and company-specific minimum wages. The once fantastical demand for a $15 an hour wage floor has been legislated into life in two states, four major cities,...
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unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …
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unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …
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We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on postrelease careers by exploiting differences in the timing of incarceration, on the one hand, and estimating fixed...
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We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on post-release careers by exploiting differences in the timing of incarceration, on the one hand, and estimating fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436159
-2007. Moreover, the results suggested that unemployment bore an association with occupational access constraints and wage sorting in …
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one very well-known differential - the Catholic/ Protestant unemployment differential in Northern Ireland - has largely … signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the introduction of fair employment legislation, growth in hidden unemployment, and …
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Background: Although unemployment rates are at historical lows, there is still a persistent gap between unemployment …. Conclusions: Lowering the disproportionate rate at which black men are incarcerated will not in itself eliminate the unemployment …
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