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While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation …
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This paper examines how changes in immigration policy levers actually affect the skill characteristics of immigrant arrivals using a unique Canadian immigrant landings database. We first review the Canadian experience with a point system as part of its immigrant policy. Section III of the paper...
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labor market outcomes. Specifically, using Census data that characterize residential and employment locations down to the …) and when at least one individual is well attached to the labor market. These findings are robust across various … availability of neighborhood referrals has a significant impact on a wide range of labor market outcomes including employment and …
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Labour Force Survey over the period 1999 to 2003 to model transitions between different labour market states payment at or … below the NMW, above the NMW, unemployment and inactivity, using a multinomial logit approach. It appears that for many …
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a model of the wage histories of dislocated workers. Similar to labor force re-entrants, those dislocated workers who …
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workers. This intervention into the labor market has direct and indirect earnings and employment consequences for both … groups of the labor force by providing a wage subsidy (in the form of a tax credit) to employers of recently-hired eligible … from the Unemployment Insurance system and the Employment Service Automated Reporting System (ESARS). The results indicate …
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The 1990-1991 recession has intensified concerns about the consequences of workers' job losses. To estimate the magnitude and temporal pattern of displaced workers' earnings losses, we exploit an unusual administrative data set that includes both employees' quarterly earnings histories and...
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covered by TAA. TAA now provides training vouchers often worth $12,000 or more. Unfortunately, training programs targeted on … role, by encouraging labor and management to adopt measures to deal with job loss. As many workers learned in the early …
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results suggest that a wage-rate subsidy paid for two years after reemployment would shorten the unemployment spells of … labor force. But the simulations also raise the possibility that the gains for dislocated workers could come at the expense … of other groups of workers; that is, other groups of workers could experience small increases in unemployment duration …
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voluntary turnover than do faculty men. This explanation accords with the general finding that women have higher rates of labor … market turnover than do men (Blau and Kahn 1981; Light and Ureta 1992), and may provide a psychic calm both for those …
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