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At Africa's expense? : disaggregating the social impact of Chinese mining operations
Wegenast, Tim; Strüver, Georg; Giesen, Juliane; … - 2017
Qualitative studies and media reports suggest that the presence of Chinese oil or mining companies generates … Afrobarometer surveys, this paper examines whether Chinese-controlled mining promotes anti-Chinese sentiments among the local … populations of sub-Saharan African countries. In addition, we test the effect of mining contractors' nationality on socio …
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Just coal transition in Western Macedonia, Greece : insights from the labor market
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Ferré, Céline - 2020
This report analyzes the consequences for the labor force of Western Macedonia’s (Greece) decarbonization as part of Europe’s new Green Deal. Already, the region records the highest unemployment rate of the country (27 percent in 2018). A survey of contractors suggests that about 16,000 jobs...
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Unemployment and inflation in Ireland : 1926 - 2012
Gerlach, Stefan; Lydon, Reamonn; Stuart, Rebecca - 2015
Since the 1970s, the overarching view in the literature has been that a Phillips curve relationship did not exist in Ireland prior to the 1979 exchange rate break with Sterling. It was argued that, as a small open economy, prices were determined externally. To test this relationship, we study...
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Unemployment and inflationin Ireland : 1926 - 2012
Gerlach, Stefan; Lydon, Reamon; Stuart, Rebecca - 2015
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Entwicklungen auf dem schweizerischen Arbeitsmarkt seit 1980
Frick, Andres (contributor); Lampart, Daniel (contributor) - 2007
The increase in unemployment to relatively high levels for Switzerland in the 1990s gave rise to two fears: First, that economic growth no longer has any effect on employment ("jobless growth"), and second, that the "equilibrium" rate of unemployment, i.e. the rate of employment that prevails...
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Arbetslöshetsersättningen i Sverige: Motiv, regler och effekter
Björklund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 1982
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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Gordo, Laura Romeu - 2010
This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...
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Employed but Still Unhappy? On the Relevance of the Social Work Norm
Chadi, Adrian - 2011
In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market...
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sectorspecific institutional differences in...
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Labour supply and labour force participation in Europe: a discussion of some recent developments and projections
Plane, Mathieu; Döpke, Jörg; Chagny, Odile; Schmidt, … - 2001
The prospects for labour supply in Europe are considered. The analysis begins with a so-called labour market balance covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force participation are given in the second part of the...
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