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employment) than other countries at a comparable level of economic development, according to this new CEPR report. The authors …
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labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …
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This paper analyses the impact of alternative measures of firms' financial health on their investment and employment …-linear impact that the financial position has on investment and employment. Our results suggest that the use of firm-level data is …
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. We find no evidence suggesting that the law reduced employment probabilities. …
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employment. This approach relies upon the concept of statistical process control (SPC) to more systematically remedy disparate … employment outcomes for women. SPC also serves as a new vehicle for conceptualizing the influence of industry on equal employment …
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Recent trends in the labor force participation of women have brought much public attention to the issue of women opting out. This paper explores the decision of working women to exit the labor market at a time of major transition—the birth of a child—utilizing linked vital statistics,...
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can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the … impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of working time and examine the determinants of employment and hours …
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Realizing high economic growth and generating gainful employment present major challenges for Kenya. This paper … analyzes the gendered employment outcomes of various investment options in Kenya using Social Accounting Matrix multiplier … job creation. Although women stand to benefit more from employment creation, most of these new jobs are informal with low …
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) countries, using quarterly data for 1980-2004. The study examines economy-wide and sectoral employment effects by gender by … between monetary policy instruments (short-term interest rates) and employment in the industrial countries under investigation …
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. However, these surveys reveal only the net gains or losses in employment over a given period. Consequently, how many gross … additional valuable information. In “What Do Worker Flows Tell Us About Cyclical Fluctuations in Employment?,” Shigeru Fujita …
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