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Automation, offshoring, and the role of public policies
Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2019
on the job finding rate but we find mixed effects in terms of post-unemployment wages. …
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Employer attitudes and the hiring of immigrants and international students : evidence from a survey of employers in Canada
Fang, Tony; Xiao, Na; Zhu, Jane; Hartley, John - 2022
What are the perceptions of employers towards hiring immigrants and international students in Atlantic Canada? How are they related to hiring outcomes? Our analysis based on a 2019 random, representative survey of 801 employers finds that those employers who report beliefs that multiculturalism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184658
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Examining the determinants of managers' hiring attitudes towards immigrant workers : evidence from an employer survey
Fang, Tony; Zhang, Tingting; Hartley, John - 2023
Using a representative survey of 801 employers across Atlantic Canada, we empirically test various factors associated with employer hiring attitudes towards international migrants. Our results indicate that employers who hired international immigrants in the past 12 months exhibited more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287242
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Mismatch unemployment
Sahin, Aysegul; Song, Joseph; Topa, Giorgio; Violante, … - 2012
unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new … one-third of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role …
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Mismatch Unemployment
Sahin, Aysegul - 2012
unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new … one-third of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102157
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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022
Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275360
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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022
Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in either formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259834
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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers : Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Rutkowski, Jan - 2021
, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316640
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Labor Markets in EU8+2 : From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers
Rutkowski, Jan - 2007
Unemployment has fallen substantially in virtually all EU8+2 countries since 2004 due to strong growth in labor demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223468
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
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