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Technological change and employment in Latin America : opportunities and challenges

Weller, Jürgen - In: CEPAL review (2020) 130, pp. 7-26

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The robot from Ipanema goes working : estimating the probability of jobs automation in Brazil

Albuquerque, Pedro H.; Saavedra, Cayan Atreio Portela … - In: Latin American business review 20 (2019) 3, pp. 227-248

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Training the unemployed in France : how does it affect unemployment duration and recurrence?

Ferracci, Marc - 2007

policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing … unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training …

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Transitional jobs after release from prison : effects on employment and recidivism

Valentine, Erin; Redcross, Cindy - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-17

This paper presents the results of two experimental evaluations of transitional jobs programs for recently released former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) and the Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration (TJRD). The analysis assesses the effects of these...

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Labor policy analysis for Jobs expansion and development

Paqueo, Vicente B.; Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Lanzona, Leonardo A. - 2014 - [rev.]

The Philippines is at a crossroad. It can choose to continue to follow current unrealistic policies that despite good intentions have been shown to be actually detrimental to the poor. Or, it can elect to try another development path to get a better chance at reducing poverty. This study...

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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment

Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …

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Labour market effects of retraining for the unemployed : the role of occupations

Kruppe, Thomas; Lang, Julia - 2014

We analyse the impact of retraining for the unemployed on future labour market success, and estimate effects separately for different target occupations. We use German registry data and apply statistical matching methods. The results show that on average, after a period with strong lock-in...

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Labour market effects of retraining for the unemployed : the role of occupations

Kruppe, Thomas; Lang, Julia - 2014

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Industrial decline and labor reallocation in a transforming economy : Romania in early transition

Earle, John S. - In: IZA journal of labor & development 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

other industrial sectors, in agriculture, and in services, as well as unemployment and non-participation in the labor force …

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010 - October 2010 (this final and revised version)

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...

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