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prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from …This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that … charging individuals with adverse health conditions higher insurance premia. Our study is motivated by recent US legislation …
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. The new jobs created by the MNCs were found in activities with relatively high productivity and wages. This suggests that …
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International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labour market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
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In 1986, Congress attempted to reduce the incentives for unauthorized migration by eliminating U.S. employment … oppoortunities. Estimation of wages using panel data for a sample of legalized men and a comparison sample of legal workers provides …
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The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …
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discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 …For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender …
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Differences in the rate of population growth between developed and developing countries have potentially important implications for patterns of trade, migration, and the distribution of the gains from economic activity, both within and between nations. This paper focuses on migration-related...
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negotiations. Wage and employment decisions are assumed to be made before business conditions are known; thus these decisions … effectiveness of various government policies on production, employment, and pricing. Hysteresis is shown to be a special case in a …
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