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How Does the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Labor Demand? An Analysis Using Job Board Data From Austria
Bamieh, Omar; Ziegler, Lennart - 2020
This study uses data from the largest Austrian job board to examine labor-demand responses in the first months after the start of the COVID lockdown in March 2020. Our analysis shows that the number of job postings declined by a third and remained low even when implemented restrictions were...
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Computerization of white collar jobs
Dillender, Marcus; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2019
We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings … increase in OAS technology usages reduces employment in OAS occupations by about 1 percentage point and increases wages for … occupations to become higher skill and hence less at risk from further automation. In addition, we find that total employment and …
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Chutes and Ladders? Job Opportunities for Generation COVID
Barth, Erling; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Schone, Pal; … - 2021
With a focus on jobs for youth, this paper analyses the development of job postings in Norway during the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Jobs for youth are defined by the top 20 3-digit occupations for young workers. Job postings in these occupations took a larger hit...
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External pay transparency and the gender wage gap
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Wiesinger, Rene; … - 2023
We show that providing publicly available wage information in vacancies, so-called external pay transparency, can reduce the gender wage gap. There is an increasing interest in pay transparency policies as a tool to combat unequal pay. We exploit a reform of Austria's Equal Treatment Law to...
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External Pay Transparency and the Gender Wage Gap
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Wiesinger, Rene; … - 2023
We show that providing publicly available wage information in vacancies, so-called external pay transparency, can reduce the gender wage gap. There is an increasing interest in pay transparency policies as a tool to combat unequal pay. We exploit a reform of Austria's Equal Treatment Law to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377136
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Gender and incidence of indirect taxation: Evidence from Uganda
Ssewanyana, Sarah N. - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2009
Since the 1990's, Uganda system has undergone various reforms. However, both tax policies and reforms have been formulated without clearly indication the channels through which gender impacts on these policies/reforms. Using the national household survey of 2005/06, this paper provided insight...
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Tax Reform and the Dutch Labour Market: An Applied General Equilibrium Approach
Bovenberg, A Lans; Mooij, Ruud A de; Graafland, Johan J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
less effective in reducing unemployment and in raising unskilled employment and female labour supply. …
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Fiscalidad y desarrollo rural en España. Los beneficios fiscales en el mundo rural español
Yzaguirre, Vicente Enciso de; López, Concepción Roche - In: CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y … (2006) 55, pp. 91-124
According to the Spanish constitution, the public authorities are obliged to act with greater diligence in matters regarding the rural environment, promoting favourable conditions and establishing a suitable political, legal, social and economic framework for the progress of the regions and...
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A REVIEW OF PROPOSALS FOR TAX POLICIES AND ADMINISTRATION IN BOLIVIA
BYRNE, PETER; Jenkins, Glenn - Economics Department, Queen's University - 1993
The 1986 tax reform in Bolivia was comprehensive and highly successful. Since that time the economy has moved from a state of hyperinflation to one of economic stability and growth. As this process continues there will be a need for additional government revenues to develop social and physical...
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Do tax-related public policies influence the public’s approval of a democratic nation’s principal political leader? An application to the U.S
Cebula, Richard - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 60 (2007) 3, pp. 305-317
This study empirically investigates whether, in a democratic system, taxrelated public policies influence the public’s approval of their principal political leader. To begin this investigation, the case of the U.S. and the U.S. President is considered. In this context, it is hypothesized that...
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