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increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …
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increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013392182
We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...
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This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...
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This paper analyzes the role of Uruguay's sharp minimum wage increases after 2004 amidst the country's slight wage inequality decrease. We found that the minimum wage increase has contributed to the reduction of wage inequality for formal workers mainly. However, we also found a negative impact...
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policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this article focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …
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, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM … immigrants already employed, while the marginal effect on average firm wages is positively associated with the share of immigrant …
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consistent with the idea that the end of free movement for EU immigrants has alleviated the sense of discrimination and … immigrants living in the UK. Using the national representative UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) data and … adopting a difference-in-differences estimates, we define natives as control group, and different sub-groups of immigrants as …
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migration is driven by macroeconomic variables (GDP per capita, unemployment rate) as well as law and policy (the existence of … the unemployment rate in countries of origin, or of the exchange rate, however, is weak. We conclude that, while future …
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...
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