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Mr. Rosaen’s Magical Thinking A Short Evaluation of Alex Rosaen’s 2013 Prevailing Wage Methodology

Philips, Peter - Department of Economics, University of Utah - 2013

This paper critically reviews Alex L. Rosaen, The Impact of Michigan’s Prevailing Wage Law on Education Construction … Expenditures, Anderson Economic Group, LLC, Commissioned by the Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan, 2013. It is shown … that Rosaen’s estimates of the prevailing wage regulatory impact on Michigan educational capital outlays swing widely from …

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Making the Labour Market Work Better in Poland

Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...

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The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Austria

Krause, Karolin; Liebig, Thomas - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2011

With 17% of the working-age population in 2010 being foreign-born, Austria has one of the largest shares of working-age immigrants in the OECD. As in other European OECD countries, the migration landscape in Austria has been shaped by the recruitment of low-educated labour migrants prior to the...

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The Ontario-Quebec Continental Gateway: A Situational Analysis of Human Resources Needs

Achkar, Souleima El - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

Gateway sectors (construction, air, marine, road and rail transportation, supply chain and multimodal transportation, and …

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Persistence in entrepreneurship and its implications for the European entrepreneurial promotion policy

Millán, José María; Congregado, Emilio; Román, … - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 1, pp. 83-106

By considering entrepreneurs who hire employees – employers – and entrepreneurs without personnel – own-account workers – as related but distinct groups within entrepreneurship, this work analyzes the roles of different factors in entrepreneurship survival in Europe from a new...

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Performances nordiques et flexicurité : quelles relations ?

Lefebvre, Alain; Méda, Dominique - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

The Nordic performances – and specially the Danish success – as regards employment, but also in the field of fighting poverty and inequalities, have developed for several years the interest of the French researchers and political leaders. These results are often considered as a product of...

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Performances nordiques et flexicurité : quelles relations ?.

Lefebvre, Alain; Méda, Dominique - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2008

Les performances nordiques – notamment danoises – en matière d’emploi mais aussi de taux de pauvreté ou d’inégalités suscitent depuis plusieurs années l’intérêt des chercheurs et des responsables politiques français. Elles sont souvent rapportées à la « flexicurité », au...

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Employment Effects of Educational Measures for Work-Injured People

Bach, Henning; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Høgelund, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Vocational rehabilitation in the form of education is the cornerstone of governmental rehabilitation programs for the … the hazard rate to education and the return to work, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of … education. In addition, we allow for any enhanced employment effects of a unique wage subsidy program in Denmark, giving …

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Job satisfaction in the Republic of Macedonia: The role of gender and education

Zeqiri, Izet; Aziri, Brikend - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

relations with supervisors and satisfaction with relations with coworkers. Also the connection of gender and level of education …

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Whether to Hire Local Contract Teachers? Trade-off Between Skills and Preferences in India.

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - Department of Economics, School of Business, Management … - 2011

and education. …

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