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This paper explores the "disposable" patterns of workforce utilization in Italy, well under way before the cyclical downturn of the early 90's and before the main reforms of the Italian labor market. The term "disposable" reflects the fact that many young people enter the labor market, their...
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Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...
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We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...
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We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the probability of exiting the labor force by about 5 percentage points. This indicates that studies using data...
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We exploit the extensive job loss associated with the devastating fourth wave of COVID-19 in Vietnam to examine the …
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Using eight rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) spanning 16 years and exploiting the US-Vietnam … occupational mobility in Vietnam employing a difference-in-differences research design. Our analysis suggests that the BTA has led …. Overall, the BTA shock accounts for 36% of the overall increase in mobility for both genders. Our results control for Vietnam …
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This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by … small in the short-term, and that they are larger for boys, ethnic minorities, and students in Northern Vietnam. The VNEN …
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AI is transforming labor markets around the world. Existing research has focused on advanced economies but has neglected developing economies. Different impacts of AI on labor markets in different countries arise not only from heterogeneous occupational structures, but also from the fact that...
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explores the association between sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption in Vietnam. A cross-sectional representative …
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used extensively during the U.S.-Vietnam war in the 1960-70s. Using a nationally representative health survey and an …
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