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One Way the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor
Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
coming to employers instead of the latter seeking them out and (2) the larger set of potential employees would increase the … probability of employers finding individuals suitable for unfilled jobs. Moreover, individuals seeking employment may engender … employers to think of new ways in which labor can be used. An increase in the number of entrants to the labor force would lower …
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How Market Infrastructure Improves Market Efficiency? Case of Cotton Market in India
Kumar, Manoj - 2009
Agricultural marketing in India is an inevitable issue before the policy makers these days as an efficient and adequate marketing system is a precondition for the agricultural growth and its diversification of crop production by providing better prices to producers and availability of food or...
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The Expansion of Temporary Help Employment in the U.S., 1982-1992 : A Test of Alternative Economic Explanations
Golden, Lonnie - 1998
Employment in the temporary help supply (THS) industry more than tripled in the U.S. between 1982 and 1992. During that period, the variability and cyclical sensitivity of THS jobs, their average weekly hours and real hourly earnings were extraordinarily high. In addition, changes in temporary...
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Evaluating Unemployment Policies: What do the Underlying Theories Tell Us?
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy prescriptions rest on different macroeconomic theories, and our...
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland: Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew; Kowalski, Przemyslaw - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...
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One Way the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2013
coming to employers instead of the latter seeking them out and (2) the larger set of potential employees would increase the … probability of employers finding individuals suitable for unfilled jobs. Moreover, individuals seeking employment may engender … employers to think of new ways in which labor can be used. An increase in the number of entrants to the labor force would lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010826305
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Is Early Retirement Encouraged by the Employer?: Labor-Demend Effects of Age-Related Collective Fees
Hallberg, Daniel - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2011
In Sweden, employers pay non-wage costs for their workforce in the form of legislated employment tax and collective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008917796
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Is Early Retirement Encouraged by the Employer? Labor-Demand Effects of Age-Related Collective Fees
Hallberg, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
In Sweden, employers pay non-wage costs for their workforce in the form of legislated employment tax and collective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873314
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Can insider power affect employment?
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....
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Was the Georgian policy shifting public sector working hours by one hour "family friendly" and did it increase female labor participation?
Bezhanishvili, Levan; Appleman, William; Abramishvili, Zurab - 2020
On September 1, 2014, Georgia enacted a one-time, immediate policy shifting public office working hours from 10:00-19:00 to 9:00-18:00 and affected the work schedules of all subjected employees. Due to professional scheduling conflicts faced by women with household responsibilities, some members...
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