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The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a non-profit collaborative effort of universities, civil society organisations and socially-responsible companies. FLA promotes adherence to international and national labour laws as this non-governmental organisation advocates for greater accountability and...
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Long-term labour market projections are a popular tool for assessing future skill needs and the possibility of skill shortages. It is often noted that reallocation processes in the German labour market are hindered due to its strong standardization and occupational segmentation. However, it is...
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This study is originated from our conference ‚Liberal Professions in changing markets' on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of our Research Institute on Professions (FFB) of the University of Lüneburg.One of the important and central markets is the labour market. The changing labour...
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Long-term labour market projections are a popular tool for assessing future skill needs and the possibility of skill shortages. It is often noted that reallocation processes in the German labour market are hindered due to its strong standardization and occupational segmentation. However, it is...
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This study argues that aggregate demand management policies alone (which have traditionally been used to stabilize economies) may not be effective in the current crisis and argues that they should instead be implemented alongside labor market policies such as work sharing programs.The use of...
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This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 recession led to an increase in demand for digital occupations in the United States. Using O*NET to capture the digital content of occupations, we find that regions that were hit harder by the COVID-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the...
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This paper examines sources of gender pay disparity and the factors that contribute to this pay gap. Many researchers question the role of discrimination and instead attribute the residual pay gap to gender differences in preferences. The main issue considered in this paper is whether gender...
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Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women …-2019. For recent generations of women, cohort effects indicate a higher likelihood of employment in low-paying manual jobs … low-skill women born in 1990 relative to those born in 1970 …
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In this paper, we produce some information derived from data on the gross flows of females between different labour market states in Australia. The data are monthly and seasonally adjusted to reveal underlying trends more clearly. We begin with a brief overview of the labour market for females...
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