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Migration on the rise, a paradigm in decline : the last half-century of global mobility

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between …

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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results

Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017

the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …

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The future of work : challenges for job creation due to global demographic change and automation

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Algur, Eda; Bloom, David E.; … - 2020

estimate the implications for job creation in 2020-2030 of population growth, changes in labor force participation, and the … coming decades. Overall, shifting demographics, changing labor force participation rates, reductions in unemployment to the …

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Supervisors and performance management systems

Frederiksen, Anders; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2017

Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...

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The impact of climate change on work lessons for developing countries

Feriga, Moustafa; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Serneels, Pieter - 2024

reviewing the evidence. Firstly, demand for labor is unevenly affected, with agriculture, heat-exposed manufacturing, and the …. Secondly, climate change impacts labor supply through absenteeism, shirking, and altering work-time patterns, depending on the … influence labor allocation and catalyze sectoral reallocation. Higher temperatures are also linked to increased migration. But …

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Gender and culture

Giuliano, Paola - 2020

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force …

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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

country, the paper also confirms that several socio-economic factors such as female labor force participation, percent of the … ; Africa ; Asia …

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Re-orient? : MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

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Transmission of US and EU economic policy uncertainty shock to Asian economies in bad and good times

Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2020

This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...

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Effect of enforcement shock on pushers' activities : evidence from an Asian drug-selling gang

Leong, Kaiwen; Li, Huailu; Xu, Haibo - 2019

We study a Singaporean drug-selling gang's dataset and empirically find that the gang's pushers purchased larger quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by...

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