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policies affecting youth employment and unemployment and section concludes identifying key issues and areas where action is …
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compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are …
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country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining …
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Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive private sector and the family-friendly public sector significantly changes around the birth of their first child. Specifically, mothers – post first childbirth – are...
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and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …
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The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly …
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As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
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on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labour market … employment and allowing for an expansion of low pay, structural changes in the economy as well as strategic choices by employers … standard employment relationships and job quality in this primary segment but rather form a supplementary part of employment in …
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introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other labor market activities at the Public Employment Service (PES) and … indicate significant treatment effects on the probability of attaining regular employment as well as the probability of …
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In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases with the distance between the place of residence...
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