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Interest in the topic of well-being has burgeoned in recent years as the weaknesses of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita as a proxy for well-being have become more apparent. At the same time, the global economy has experienced a productivity slowdown. Since productivity growth is...
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As a result of the on-going global economic crisis, issues of employment, unemployment and labor mobility in Kazakhstan … employment and self-employment opportunities, as well as raising the living standards of the rural population. …
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. Moreover, we find that precarious forms of employment are persistent: individuals who start their careers at the bottom of the …
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This paper compares the employment status and earnings of veterans and nonveterans following their receipt of public … Outreach Program and Local Veterans Employment Representative). Employment rates of veterans after program receipt are … substantially lower than those for nonveterans. Meanwhile, average earnings are slightly higher, conditional on employment. These …
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, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …
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participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … index increases the probability of salaried employment by 6.5 percentage points, and leads to a 9.5 percent higher per … capita expenditure. Employment transitions happen from daily wage employment and self-employment to salaried employment. The …
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developed countries, focusing on employment, wage rates, and wage dispersions. However, the literature offers ambiguous answers …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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