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. On average, the number of hours worked in more affected sectors fell, hourly wages rose, while employment did not …
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This paper employs a natural field experiment in the Netherlands to test whether individuals intuitively help strangers with different group identities. We implement time manipulations in an everyday task to stimulate intuitive versus deliberate decision-making and thereafter examine helpfulness...
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This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
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The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and … economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … further dualization of labour markets given that risks are allocated unequally across types of employment …
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markets are more likely to make the transition into employment than has previously been the case. It concludes that whilst the … unemployed and the inactive remain distinct groups with regards to transitions into employment, post-industrial labour markets …, the study finds that there is a trend towards more precarious employment for the recently non-employed in some countries …
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relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and self-employment) in 24 EU member states at two points of time, in 1998 and …This paper presents – in a new way of examination and portrayal – the extent and changes of nonstandard employment … central outcome is neither the complaint of the eroding 'standard employment relationship' nor of its potential …
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The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...
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After discussing theory regarding the consequences of technological change on employment and surveying previous …. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high …-tech manufacturing but absent in the more traditional manufacturing sectors. This means that we should not expect positive employment …
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the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and … market. They are also more likely to start a self-employment activity. As a consequence of this upward mobility their income … increases or stays the same in response to immigration. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood to leave employment or to …
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and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …
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