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Climate shocks, migration, and labor markets : a gender analysis from West Africa

El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2021

the labor division between women and men and show that shocks may disrupt long-standing gender roles. The results are …

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The iceberg decomposition : a parsimonious way tomap the health of labour markets

Baert, Stijn - 2020

This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...

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Missing from the market : purdah norm and women's paid work participation in Bangladesh

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2017

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … significant and negative effect on women's participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …

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Defining and measuring workforce development in the United States in a post-bipartisan era

Holland, Brian - 2018

The bipartisan acceptance of a federal role in workforce development policy is no longer in play as a result of ideological differences in the definition of workforce development which arise from a lack of coherent and misunderstood outcomes. My attempt here is to posit a new definition for...

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Towards a European full employment policy

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Full employment in the European Union member states is a challenge but feasible, also in downswings of the business cycle and during stages of increased robotization. It requires a labor legislation that ensures flexibility and retraining, responsive labor sharing during the business cycle and...

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Labour market outcomes for cancer survivors : a review of the reviews

Sharipova, Adelina; Baert, Stijn - 2019

Objectives: To synthesise the existing reviews conducted on the labour market outcomes of cancer survivors by focusing on (i) the convergences and divergences on the overall work-related outcomes, (ii) the moderating factors studied to date, and (iii) an identification of areas where more...

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On the interaction between trade reforms and labor market regulation : evidence from the MENA countries' labor markets

Selwaness, Irène; Zaki, Chahir - 2017

Using a panel of MENA countries, this paper tries to examine the interaction between trade reforms and labor market regulations on the outcome of the labor market. The theoretical predictions on this literature show that the effects of trade liberalization in any given country are conditional on...

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What do employers' associations do?

Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

While trade unions have been studied in detail, there is virtually no economics research on employer associations (EAs), trade unions' counterparts in many countries. However, besides conducting collective bargaining, EAs perform several other activities that can in uence economic outcomes,...

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Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?

Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman - 2019

In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known about the policies that foster or hamper...

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Reforms and employment in the Egyptian labor market : evolution by age from 1988 to 2006

Selwaness, Irene - 2020

This paper aims to study the evolution in the age composition of males' employment in the aftermath of the public sector downsizing in the 1990s -during the Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Policies - and the new labor law in 2003. This answers the question of whether young (15-29) and...

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