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the manufacturing sector is continuously growing, manufacturing employment levels are decreasing; this pattern first … emerged in the 1990s, lasting for a decade. The decoupling of output and employment in the manufacturing industry is atypical … compared to the commonly stylized facts showing that both employment and output grow together in the long run and decline …
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what we actually have observed is a distinct pattern of employment deindustrialization rather than a severe decline in the … this article, I reassess the role of the manufacturing industry in the overall economy’s production growth and employment … GDP does not exhibit a long run declining trend as it does in other advanced countries. Secondly, I show that employment …
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This paper studies the effects of the introduction of Germany's statutory minimum wage in 2015 on employment and … difference-in-differences approach that compares the evolution of employment and unemployment between regions with varying … regular employment subject to social insurance, but a statistically significant negative effect on marginal employment. The …
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the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and …
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We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United …. After controlling for ability, education and wealth, a one-year increase in a mother's employment is associated with six … weeks more employment of her child on average. The intergenerational transmission of maternal employment is stronger to …
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; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect …
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This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
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This letter discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the COVID-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...
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affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that … increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable employment held by low-skilled low-wage workers, and increases the …
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