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This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working …
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GDP per worker fell for the five years after 2008 which is unprecedented in post war UK history. In this paper we argue that “capital shallowing” (i.e. the fall in the capital-labour ratio) could be the main reason for this. This is likely to have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a...
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techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment …. We find that transitions in and out of employment for men are relatively independent of other transitions. In contrast …, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro …
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dramatically and the employment rates of lone mothers have increased substantially. In addition to the federal reforms, state level …
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study concentrates on participation or non-participation in employment, with non-participation defined broadly to include … difficulties, data from the British Household Panel Study are used to construct models of the probability of being in employment …, controlling for various constraints. Starting from the position that all non-employment is voluntary, possible constraints are …
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …
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caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits …
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holiday per year, which should lead to adjustments in employment. For employees I use complementary log-log regression to … account for right-censoring of employment spells. I find no increase in the hazard to exit employment within a year after …. I also evaluate the long run trend in aggregate employment, using the predicted treatment probabilities in a difference …
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A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing Chinese demand for commodities. Using census data for...
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