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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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, through employment generation, and indirectly through an impact on agricultural wages. The paper illustrates that in Palanpur … previously disadvantaged and most vulnerable segments of village society have gained access to non-farm employment opportunities …
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pay of low wage workers, narrowed the gender pay gap and now covers around 1-worker-in-10. The consequences for employment … employment effects. The reasons for this include: an impact on hours rather than workers; employer wage setting and labour market …
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I study the role of company start-up costs for employment performance. The model is search equilibrium with a new … jointly determined. Higher start-up costs reduce overall employment but increase the size of incumbent firms. I discuss some …
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Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The...
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-farm activities takes them out of the village. In this paper, we take this first step by examining trends in employment outside the … there has been a rise in self-employment and non-farm casual labour; activities that take villagers outside Palanpur on a … and that the structural link between land and employment has not changed over time. …
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-income parents, especially mothers. It is argued that while popular opinion is generally supportive of mothers taking paid employment …
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results show that vocational qualifications at all levels can improve the employment chances of unqualified school leavers … acquired before employment is attained. There are also small effects on occupational mobility, but little impact on wages …
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This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
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This paper estimates the impact of road improvements on firm employment and productivity using plant level longitudinal … data for Britain. Exposure to transport improvements is measured by changes in employment accessibility along the road … network. These changes are constructed using data on employment for small geographical units, details of the main road network …
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