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men's returns to education during the 1980s and the 1990s and estimate the role of supply and demand factors in explaining … the changes in skill premia. They propose a model of demand for skills with three production inputs, corresponding to … primary-level education throughout Latin America. This supply shift was compounded by a generalized shift in the demand for …
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structural characteristics of regions into account and investigate differences in labor demand responsiveness and their potential … findings point to substantially distinct labor demand responses to changes in output and wages among European countries and …
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interpreted as a relative decrease of low-skilled labor demand. However, the effect of offshoring on relative labor demand is … be very heterogeneous across regional labor markets. We estimate the effects of offshoring to Eastern Europe and China on …
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An examination of regional unemployment rates reveals that there are vast differences which cannot be explained by different institutional. Our paper traces these differences in the regions labour market performance back to the regions specialisation in products that are more or less advanced in...
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services is higher compared to other establishments. Furthermore, the main factors determining labor demand in this field are …
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cease to be significant. This suggests that increase in labor demand push up wages in tight labor markets while the … adjustment occurs purely through quantities purely in slack labor markets. Hence the incidence of shifts in local labor demand …
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has a local demand for non-tradable goods and the size of the non-tradable sector is directly dependent on the size of the … consumption by the local inhabitants. Depending on the preferences of the inhabitants this will increase demand for non …
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welfare reform policies that make it harder to get benefits. There is little emphasis on 'labour demand policies'. Labour … demand policies stimulate employers to provide more jobs or increase the quality of their jobs (Bartik, 2001). Bartik argues … preferences of the inhabitants this will increase demand for non-tradable goods and depending on the technology required to …
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Matches between workers and jobs are better in thick labour markets than in thin ones. This paper measures match quality by the gap between worker skills and their job tasks in the Netherlands. The smaller the gap, the better the match between skills and tasks. The measured gaps are 14 percent...
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We investigate the interaction of regional population and employment in a simu1taneousmodel, allowing for interregional commuting. The proposed dynamic specificationdistinguishes between short-run and equilibrium adjustment effects and it encompassesthe lagged-adjustment specification that is...
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