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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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The aim of this study is to examine the effect of FDI on employment in ECOWAS sub region between 1990 and 2019. The … and employment across ECOWAS sub region. In the short run, the impact of FDI on employment is negative and statistically … not significant. Meanwhile, in the long run FDI has a positive and statistically significant impact on employment rate …
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Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary...
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and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …
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This article provides an overview of the economic literature on short-time work. It presents the main characteristics of short-time work since its emergence in Germany in the 1930s. It analyzes its effectiveness as a job preservation mechanism, drawing on theoretical models and empirical...
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This article provides an overview of the economic literature on short-time work. It presents the main characteristics of short-time work since its emergence in Germany in the 1930s. It analyzes its effectiveness as a job preservation mechanism, drawing on theoretical models and empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580739
., that women's participation is falling due unavailability of steady gainful employment. The high unemployment rate and … industry-wise composition of total employment provide suggestive evidence that women's participation is falling as women are … likely to be displaced from employment by male workers. We show that women's employment is likely to suffer more than men …
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labour demand. We find that female employment is highly responsive to local labour demand, but not male employment. The … stagnant employment creation from 2004-05 onwards. Our analysis suggests that India needs to focus on creating rural non …
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costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …
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associated with it In particular we distinguish between employment hours and effort per worker and allow for adjustment costs … associated with employment changes We assume that the requirement function for effective hours has a general trans …-logarithmic form and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross …
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