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. We find no evidence suggesting that the law reduced employment probabilities. …
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employment. This approach relies upon the concept of statistical process control (SPC) to more systematically remedy disparate … employment outcomes for women. SPC also serves as a new vehicle for conceptualizing the influence of industry on equal employment …
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Recent trends in the labor force participation of women have brought much public attention to the issue of women opting out. This paper explores the decision of working women to exit the labor market at a time of major transition—the birth of a child—utilizing linked vital statistics,...
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can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the … impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of working time and examine the determinants of employment and hours …
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Realizing high economic growth and generating gainful employment present major challenges for Kenya. This paper … analyzes the gendered employment outcomes of various investment options in Kenya using Social Accounting Matrix multiplier … job creation. Although women stand to benefit more from employment creation, most of these new jobs are informal with low …
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) countries, using quarterly data for 1980-2004. The study examines economy-wide and sectoral employment effects by gender by … between monetary policy instruments (short-term interest rates) and employment in the industrial countries under investigation …
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. However, these surveys reveal only the net gains or losses in employment over a given period. Consequently, how many gross … additional valuable information. In “What Do Worker Flows Tell Us About Cyclical Fluctuations in Employment?,” Shigeru Fujita …
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the logistics employment and an econometric analysis is carried out at the "regional-industry" level (20 NUTS2 regions and … positively affect the logistics employment variation in 1996-2001, while import and cooperation agreements display a negative or …
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This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …
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theoretical background which explains how marriage to a native may positively or negatively affect an immigrant's employment … probability. Utilizing the 2000 U.S. Census, we first look at the effect of cross-nativity marriages on employment using a linear … immigrant assimilation suggest that marriage to a native increases the employment probability of an immigrant by approximately 5 …
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