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A structural model of the labor market to understand gender gaps among marginalized Roma communities
Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio; Robayo-Abril, Monica - 2020
This paper constructs and estimates a household-level search model to analyze Roma spouses' utility maximization for leisure, home production, and work. The paper aims to explain labor market gender gaps in a marginalized Roma population with low labor market participation rates (males 53...
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The impact of employer discrimination on female labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from Tunisia
Alaref, Jumana; Towfighian, Samira Nikaein; Paez, Gustavo N. - 2020
unemployment in the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297473
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Ex-ante evaluation of the impact of increases in minimum wages on labor market outcomes in Kosovo
Robayo-Abril, Monica; Terskaya, Anastasia; Brodmann, … - 2020
increase to 250 euros per month, the simulated unemployment rate increases by 0.4 percentage point in the short term and about … 0.6 percentage point in the long term. The youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) is anticipated to increase by up to 1 ….1 percentage points in this scenario, a relatively large increase considering the already high levels of unemployment among this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297495
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2019
The paper reviews 49 empirical studies that estimate the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A review of the empirical models used by these studies and a meta-analysis of 762 separate results collected from them are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 17 major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004820
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Labor Market Institutions and Their Effect on Labor Market Performance in OECD and European Countries
Fialova, Kamila - 2011
unemployment in non-European OECD sample, which is in accordance with the text-book pricing out effect. To examine the potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644746
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Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion 2.0
World Bank Group - 2018
This report is part of a joint study between the European Commission (EC), the World Bank, andthe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It aims to inform activation and employment support and social inclusion policy making and programs through an improved understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645133
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Skills and Europe's Labor Market : How Technological Change and Other Drivers of Skill Demand and Supply are Shaping Europe's Labor Market
Hoftijzer, Margo - 2018
This report complements the recent World Bank publication, Growing United: Upgrading Europe's Convergence Machine (Bodewig, C., Ridao-Cano, C., 2018). The Growing United report highlights that, while the European Union is still the "convergence machine" that fosters an unparalleled depth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645435
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Jobs in Iraq : A Primer on Job Creation in the Short-Term
Bandiera, Luca - 2019
Iraq needs a strategy to make rapid progress in tackling its profound jobs challenges. Iraq is facing a jobs crisis of unprecedented proportions. It could foment a resurgence in violence unless the Government of Iraq makes credible and swift progress in job creation and reconstruction. To shape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645919
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Jobs Challenges in Slavonia, Croatia - A Subnational Labor Market Assessment
Christiaensen, Luc - 2019
. However, inactivity and unemployment remain high. In 2017, the share of the working-age population in work was only 51 percent … Slavonia's much higher inactivity and unemployment. On the demand side, labor productivity in Slavonia's firms is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646464
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Integrating the Long-Term Unemployed into the Job Market : Synthesis of International Experience and Implications for Kosovo
Hiebl, Julian - 2019
Long-term unemployment has been a persisting problem in Europe since the 2008 economic crisis. Long-term unemployment …, ethnic minorities, as well as people with health problems or disabilities are also more vulnerable to long-term unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647376