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The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … on local economies. Our findings suggest that housing and to a lesser degree food prices increased, but employment rates …
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and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this … effect on employment relationships. …
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Although a number of papers in the literature have shown the employment and wage differences between disabled and non …-disabled individuals, not much is known about the potential employment and wage losses that disabled individuals suffer before being … illness to identify the differences in employment and wages between these two groups before they are officially accepted into …
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reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …
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on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality …
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Will the current employment crisis produce lost generations with permanently lower labour market attachment? Taking an … explicit cohort perspective and based on Danish data we do not find strong persistence in employment rates at the cohort level … assessments of persistence in aggregate employment rates. …
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firms to cut investment, employment, and borrowing. We conclude that financial market fluctuations affect even private firms …
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OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … employment prospects increase with weight, albeit with diminishing returns. However, underweight men in blue-collar jobs earn …
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