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present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and …
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Examines the incidence and adjustment experiences of workers who are displaced by economic change. Since the mid-1970s, the aggregate annual rate of retrenchment has fluctuated in a counter-cyclical pattern around a relatively stable long-term trend of about 5 per cent. The paper shows that the...
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The paper examines the structure of employment defined by industry, skill, age, part-time and casual employment status … and the distribution of earnings. Employment patterns, and changes in employment profiles, are examined for differences …
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social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …
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This report examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of meat processing enterprises. The effects on employees are also considered, and the scope to achieve further necessary change is analysed. The study has drawn on information obtained from...
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This study examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of container stevedoring workplaces. The effects on employees and users of stevedoring services are also considered, and impediments to achieving improved work arrangements are analysed. This is...
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Australian manufacturing is a picture of diversity and contrasts. This is the main finding of this paper which examines trends in the Australian manufacturing sector over the last two decades. Manufacturing output has quadrupled since the mid-1950s. The fastest growing activities have been those...
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been a shift toward employment of skilled workers in Australia, as well as in many other industrialised economies. While it … paper shows other factors are at work. Changing employment patterns are more closely associated with a pull toward skilled …
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churning flows reduce employment growth. …
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This research exploits a large employer-level panel dataset in order to analyse employment and worker flows for all …
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