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This paper unravels a cyclical pattern in the value of employment elasticity in organized manufacturing in India over the period 1976-2002. Four periods are distinguished: the ‘benign’ growth period of the late seventies; the period of ‘jobless growth’ of the first half of the eighties;...
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the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of … minimum wage may increase unemployment (although the estimates arenot robust). There are no discernable effects of minimum …
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Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that within …-country regional variation in inherited human capital in four such economies explains the bulk of regional variation in unemployment … unemployment rates. Although this capital and labour mobility pattern is consistent with the presence of regional skill spillovers …
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The objective of this paper is to provide a comparative assessment of the consequences of worker displacement in France and the United States. I estimate wage losses of displaced workers in the two countries and examine the relative contribution of two important sources of post-displacement wage...
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employer size and employment growth across establishments; b) the cyclicality of flows between employment and unemployment; c …) the negative comovement of unemployment and vacancies; andd) the dynamics of the employer size distribution.Chapter 3 …
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Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...
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This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...
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This paper examines the determinants of wage pressure in large companies, including ownership characteristics and the impact of regional labour markets. By using a panel of 329 Polish largest firms during the period 1997- 2001, we find evidence of rent sharing activities, however there is also...
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unemployment is not unique. Employment and inflation cannot both be controlled by monetary policy. International growth will be …
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reduces the chances of employment and unemployment and increases the likelihood downtime. Per capita income is positively … related with the likelihood of downtime and employee and negatively with unemployment. The variable experience and schooling … likelihood of unemployment. Regarding the likelihood of unemployment, there is evidence of the existence of racial discrimination …
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