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Business Cycles, Economic Crises, and the Poor : Testing for Asymmetric Effects

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2001

The author examines whether output contraction associated with cyclical output fluctuations and economic crises have an asymmetric effect on poverty. He identifies four potential sources of asymmetry: expectations and cofident factors, credit rationing at the firm level (induced by either...

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Review of the evidence on short-term education and skills training programs for out-of-school youth with a focus on the use of incentives

Clarke, Marguerite; Sharma, Meghna; Bhattacharjee, Pradyumna - 2021

employment. This paper reviews the global evidence to identify which programs are most effective at delivering results. How …

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Wage elasticities in working and volunteering : the role of reference points in a laboratory study

Terry, Stephen - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 65 (2019) 1, pp. 413-425

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Wage elasticities in working and volunteering : the role of reference points in a laboratory study

Terry, Stephen - 2016

We experimentally test how effort responds to wages – randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity – in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for themselves, higher wages lead to higher effort with relatively muted targeting...

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The impact of digitization in manufacturing on female employment and gender wage gap

Wu, Yunxia; LI, Lei; Zheng, Yanyan - In: Journal of Asian economics 95 (2024), pp. 1-12

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Employers' revelation of decision-making keys for employing people with visual impairment: Mixed-method analysis of employers' motivations

Eckhaus, Eyal - In: Business Systems Research (BSR) 13 (2022) 1, pp. 104-119

Background: People with visual impairment or blindness (PWVIB) face many barriers related to employment. Although … literature explores employers' concerns regarding the employment of PWVIB, stating the concern and developing a solution are … gap by surveying employers to determine practical solutions and developing the Solutions for Improving Employment of …

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The employment of women since the war

Vallentin, Antonina - In: International labour review 25 (1932), pp. 480-498

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The effects of rationalisation on employment

Tremelloni, R. - In: International labour review 25 (1932), pp. 189-212

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The service industries in relation to employment trends : abreviated version of a paper presented on December 27, 1939 at the Econometric Society's meeting in Philadelphia

Weintraub, David; Magdoff, Harry - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 8 (1940), pp. 289-311

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African American Men and the Labor Market during the Great Recession

Holder, Michelle - 2017

This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, during, and after the Great Recession. Using a model of occupational crowding, the book outlines how the representation of African American men in major occupational categories almost...

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