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Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we …
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by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …
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, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …
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businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …
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generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …
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induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We find that a 1-hour increase in weekly sleep increases employment by 1 …
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This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … production tasks reduces the wages paid to unskilled workers as well as their domestic employment. At the aggregate level, trade … firms restrict employment to keep wages low, resulting in too many firms that are on average too small. Offshoring on the …
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We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on...
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effects on physical capital, employment and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as … impacts. By contrast, the long-term impact of policies coming only via the employment rate channel materialises at shorter …
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