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An Impact Assessment of ESF Training Courses for Unemployed in the Province of Bolzano

Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022

This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...

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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries

Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam - 2022

We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...

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Pathways to recovery from COVID-19: Characterizing input-output linkages of a targeted sector

Temel, Tugrul T.; Phumpiu, Paul - In: Journal of Economic Structures 10 (2021), pp. 1-24

At present, the world is facing an unprecedented employment challenge due to the COVID-19 pandemic. International Labor …

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An impact assessment of ESF training courses for unemployed in the Province of Bolzano

Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022

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Characteristics of public workers

Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2022

In our study, we set out to present the characteristics of public workers between 2011 and 2019 based on the comprehensive and anonymous administrative database of the Hungarian State Treasury (MÁK). During the years under review, altogether 676 thousand people were involved in the programme....

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The Impact of the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment on Employment Informality in Algeria

Souag, Ali; Assaad, Ragui - 2017

This paper examines whether the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment, a labor market … intermediation program adopted by the Algerian government in 2008, reduced the informality of employment in Algeria. Using repeated … results show that the Action Plan has in fact contributed to reducing employment informality in such enterprises, but with …

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Minimum wages and teen employment: A spatial panel approach

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Lacombe, Donald J. - 2011

The authors employ spatial econometrics techniques and Annual Averages data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics …

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Sharpening the effectiveness of natural experiments as an analytical tool

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012

The importance of using natural experiments in economic research has long been recognized. Yet, it is only in recent years that natural experiments have become an integral part of the economist's analytical toolbox, thanks to the efforts of Meyer, Card, Peters, Krueger, Gruber, and others. This...

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Lockdown stringency and employment formality: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

Köhler, Timothy; Bhorat, Haroon; Hill, Robert; … - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-28

In response to COVID-19 most governments used some form of lockdown policy to manage the pandemic. This required making iterative policy decisions in a rapidly changing epidemiological environment resulting in varying levels of lockdown stringency over time. While studies estimating the labour...

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Argentina : a case study on the Plan Jefes y Jefas de Hogar Desocupados, or the employment road to economic recovery

Kostzer, Daniel (contributor) - 2008

After the 2001 crisis, Argentinaonce the poster-child for pro-market structural-adjustment policieshad to define a new strategy in order to manage the societal demands that had led to the fall of the previous administration. The demand by the majority of the population for employment recovery...

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