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The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between …
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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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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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This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force …
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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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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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The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in …
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We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that persist to this day. This thesis is supported by our finding that nations' historical resource endowments, as measured by the historical availability of arable land, are...
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Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th … towards new immigrants of lower quality, public assessment of the impact of those immigrants on a deteriorating labor market …, political participation of those impacted, and, as a triggering mechanism, the sudden shocks to the labor market delivered by …
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anachronistic and obsolete. -- Economic history ; standard employment ; Germany …
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