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find that ownership type is highly correlated with characteristics of both workers (education, experience, gender, and … from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked …
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longitudinal data on manufacturing firms, our fixed effect and random trend models consistently fail to support workers' fears of … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …
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By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among other less-educated groups. These "spillover effects" are difficult to estimate because welfare caseloads decrease in response to improvements in the economy, which leads...
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This paper analyses trends in working time inthe euro area, in comparison with the US, over the period 1970 to 2004 and examines the causes and consequences of the observed changes. Between 1970 and 2004, a downward trend in average annual hours worked per worker can be observed for the euro...
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people in education, is also linked to the overall decline in youth unemployment. Finally, as regards education, the results … indicate that the number of years of education, the number of young people with vocational training and, to a lesser extent … a well-functioning education system and labour market institutions that do not introduce distortions into the labour …
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