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Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment
Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763558
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 2 (2015) 97, pp. 498-520
We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with … damped entrepreneurship across several generations. Proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with reduced … entrepreneurship for cities in the 1970s and onward in industries unrelated to mining. We use historical mines as an instrument for our …
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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings
Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...
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The labour market impact of mobility restrictions: Evidence from the West Bank
Calì, Massimiliano; Miaari, Sami H. - Households in Conflict Network - 2012
Using data on Israeli closure in the Palestinian West Bank, we provide new evidence on the labour market effects of conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. We exploit the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was exogenous to local labour market conditions and find a causal...
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Union Low-pay-worker Representation and the sans-papiers Strikes in France
Artus, Ingrid - In: International Journal of Action Research 7 (2011) 1, pp. 49-79
The article deals with the problem of union representation in the low-pay-sector. Regarding especially (but not only) the situation in Germany, it claims a cultural gap between traditional unions and employees in the expanding precarious job sector. This is due to the difficult circumstances for...
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The labour market impact of mobility restrictions: Evidence from the West Bank
Cali, Massimiliano; Miaari, Sami - European Regional Science Association - 2013
The efficient mobility of goods and labour is one of the most important features of a functioning economy. Using data on Israeli closures inside the West Bank, we provide new evidence on the labour market effects of conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. These restrictions operated through a...
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Основные направления развития трудового потенциала в условиях рынка труда Сибири
Karpov, Valery - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper is devoted to the peculiarities of the Siberian labor market regulation, including the deepening of market segmentation based on several criteria: the availability of alternative forms of employment; different rates of release and quality of employees; qualifications of employees;...
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Target Group Monitoring in European Regions. Empirical Findings and Conceptual Approaches
Larsen, Christa (contributor);  … - Rainer Hampp Verlag
Target Group Monitoring is a regional approach to generate data to cover adequately the information needs of labour market actors. Approaches from different European regions are presented in this book, applied onto migrants as a target group of labour market politics. Furthermore, the central...
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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jaeger, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous selfemployment experience in an … immigrant’s country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the …
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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Akee, Randall Kekoa Quinones; Jaeger, David A.; … - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2007
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an … immigrant’s country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the …
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