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US states have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess the impact of state policy responses on local economic and health conditions, with the goal to shed light on marginal health benefits and economic costs associated with social distancing. We find that...
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between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.62–0.70 across the …
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between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …
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-out of labour exchange functions (public employment agencies), and strong sanctions for non-compliance with ‘activation …
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While global attention has been focused on the plight of the child laborer internationally, legal scholars have paid less attention to the changing nature of the American child's workplace. This article first describes the current situation of the American child worker and briefly reviews the...
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The ILO definition of the worst forms of child labour includes work that is likely to jeopardise health and safety. Effective targeting of those child work activities most damaging to health requires both conceptual understanding and empirical evidence of the interactions between child labour...
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The report makes use of advances in research achieved through UCW and other efforts to take stock of the global child labour situation, assess key remaining obstacles to the elimination of child labour and identify strategies for addressing them
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Employability is considered to be the world's problem now a days. In India the same problem is viewed in a different … global level thereby MNCs and TNCs could minimize the Cost of employment for their respective organizations in the world …
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Economic theory suggests that growth may improve gender equality directly by raising women's employment and indirectly …. This paper argues that growth in India has not substantially improved gender equality because it has not sufficiently … activated either of these mechanisms. I analyze structural changes from 1982/83 to 2011/12 to show that India's high-growth …
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