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Selection into employment sectors in urban Ghana and Tanzania
Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla - 2013
The paper analyses labour market participation and selection into specific employment sectors in urban areas of Ghana … is found to increase the probability of employment but the reverse is the case in Ghana as education increases the … are characteristic of a preference for formal sector employment by the highly educated as all levels of education are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009789045
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How urbanization affects employment and social interactions
Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238209
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One-company towns : scale and consequences : one-company towns concentrate employment but their ability to adapt to adverse events is often very limited
Commander, Simon - 2018
-company towns typically have high concentrations of employment that normally provide much of the funding for local services. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808793
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How urbanization affect employment and social interactions
Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - In: European economic review : EER 75 (2015), pp. 131-155
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522750
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Pro-market institutions and labor market outcomes : a panel-data analysis of U.S. metropolitan areas
Arif, Imran; Dawson, John W. - In: Contemporary economic policy : a journal of Western … 41 (2023) 4, pp. 629-652
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014456798
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Indian urban workers' labour market transitions
Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 66 (2023) 2, pp. 471-494
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The labor market impact of Covid-19 on immigrants : job loss from Covid-19 was greater among immigrants than the native-born in most developed countries
Cassidy, Hugh - 2022
. The labor market recovery for both groups in the US was rapid, and by Fall 2020, the employment gaps between immigrant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254475
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation …-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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Demographic and economic factors of labour supply : long-term projections and policy options for France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom
Ivanov, Serguey - In: Vienna yearbook of population research (2009), pp. 83-122
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