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Low-income individuals in developing countries are often inadequately prepared for employment because they lack key …, or prior employment. We furthermore find that participants enjoy improved employability and estimated wage outcomes …
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This paper explores the conditions under which decentralization and fiscal competition lead to a policy of subsidizing cultural activities. A theoretical analysis discusses these subsidies as a form of local public good provision which makes a city more attractive to highly educated individuals....
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Many workers provide services for customers via digital platforms that may exert monopsony power. Typical expositions of this phenomenon are inapplicable because platforms post prices to both sides of a two-sided market, and platform-specific labor supply is hard to measure when workers...
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This paper analyses the evidence of job polarization in developing countries. We carry out an extensive review of the existing empirical literature and examine the primary data sources and measures of routine intensity. The synthesis of results suggests that job polarization in emerging...
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This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall … leading explanations for occupational employment changes, price and employment growth are positively related. Strong … counteracting skill changes along the lines of our new empirical fact explain why occupational wages are unrelated to employment …
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We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
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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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moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that …
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context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences … often adopted in regions with higher digital capital. But digital capital smoothed the employment shock beyond the effect of …
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Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation … and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth …
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