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shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings between formal and informal … and considering self-selection of individuals into different employment types, we find a significant informal employment …
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to adverse employment effects, we expect there are downside risks for youth and low skilled workers' employment. As …
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We document how differences in labour demand by gender explain the contrasting evolutions of labour force participation between men and women during the Great Recession in Europe. We first highlight that Europe is characterized by high levels of occupational segregation by gender. As a result,...
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wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation between …
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We document how differences in labour demand by gender explain the contrasting evolutions of labour force participation between men and women during the Great Recession in Europe. We first highlight that Europe is characterized by high levels of occupational segregation by gender. As a result,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243219
On September 1, 2014, Georgia enacted a one-time, immediate policy shifting public office working hours from 10:00-19:00 to 9:00-18:00 and affected the work schedules of all subjected employees. Due to professional scheduling conflicts faced by women with household responsibilities, some members...
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employment by means of a regression discontinuity analysis. Because this threshold is known in advance, they investigate the … presence of discontinuities in both the level and the slope of employment probabilities at different ages around the threshold …. Their results indicate that turning 22 does not significantly change the employment probability. However, they find a …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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