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We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland … have crowded out natives, our quasi-experimental results reveal that immigration has in fact reduced unemployment and …
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Much research has been done showing that unemployment can cause crime, and that crime adversely impacts economic … find evidence for the possibility of a vicious cycle, with unemployment leading to higher crime rates and crime rates … raising unemployment. I further find that especially employment in low-skill service jobs is adversely affected by crime, that …
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The aim of this paper is to detect the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on several labor market indicators and to identify the heterogeneity of these effects across different demographic groups in the Turkish labor market. To this aim, we use the quarterly Turkish household labor force surveys...
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Youth unemployment in Uganda increased from 12.7% in 2012/13 to 13.3 in 2016/17, despite a decline in the overall … national unemployment rate from 11.1% to 9.2%. This poses serious development challenges, particularly to the ongoing efforts …, residence, and age determine youth unemployment in Uganda. Using recent data from the Uganda National Household Survey 2016 …
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Current cohorts of young adults entered adulthood during an international labor and housing market crisis of a severity not experienced since the Great Depression. Concerns have arisen over the impacts on young adults’ employment, income, wealth, and living arrangements, and about whether...
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to more sustainable employment. Adjustments in labor market institutions could make the provision of training more …
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Social networks, or “job-referral” networks, can help make labor markets become more efficient. Outside the firm, they help workers obtain employment after displacement and secure higher-paying jobs. They can also match highly-skilled workers to more productive employment. Inside the firm,...
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, many observers are anticipating a dramatic rise in unemployment in the fall, with the total number of unemployed rapidly … unemployment rate will remain relatively stable in August and through the end of September, when elections for the German Bundestag … will be held. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is actually falling. Given this fact, the danger that the total …
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Überraschend ist im Mai die Arbeitslosigkeit gefallen. Diese positive Entwicklung wird sich im Juni zunächst fortsetzen. Diese Einschätzung basiert auf einem neuen methodischen Konzept, das Google-Aktivitätsdaten für die kurzfristige Prognose der Arbeitslosigkeit einsetzt. Gerade in...
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Die große Wirtschaftskrise hat bisher nur verhaltene Spuren am Arbeitsmarkt hinterlassen. Angesichts der unsicheren weiteren konjunkturellen Entwicklung, der schlechten Auslastung der Arbeitskräfte in den Unternehmen und der hohen Kurzarbeit erwarten viele Beobachter zum Herbst einen...
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