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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies:An Empirical Analysis
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants andtheir complete grant history...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861409
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House Prices and Employment Reallocation: International Evidence
Jimeno, Juan F; Bover, Olympia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
change. In this paper we estimate a model of labor demand in the construction sector, featuring building constraints, which … display larger elasticities of labor demand in the construction sector with respect to house prices than countries that seem … the whole economy, the elasticity of labor demand with respect to house prices is broadly similar across countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822115
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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003
This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971?96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262111
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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of SkilledWorkers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Rutkowski, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent adramatic transformation. Notably … period of weak labor demand, it is now the supply side of the labor market thatconstrains job creation... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861190
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Markets in Developing Countries: A New Method with an Illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam
Carbonero, Francesco; Davies, Jeremy; Ernst, Ekkehard; … - 2021
AI is transforming labor markets around the world. Existing research has focused on advanced economies but has … neglected developing economies. Different impacts of AI on labor markets in different countries arise not only from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882520
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment: Does Finance Matter?
Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panel VectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables to unemployment are affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922971
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Unemployment and finance: how do financial and labour market factors interact?
Gatti, Donatella; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - 2009
Using data for 18 OECD countries over the period 1980-2004, we investigate how labour and financial factors interact to determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased market capitalization as well as decreased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269283
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What is the Value of Foreign Work Experience? Analysing Online CV Data in Slovakia
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2016
This paper studies how attractive young returnees are in the labour market and how they behave relative to stayers. We use the online CVs of young people that are posted on the major Slovak job-search portal. The analysis is performed using a set of regression models that investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494293
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Labour market institutions and unemployment: Does finance matter?
Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - 2011
We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panel VectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables to unemployment are affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278802
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Is Labour Market Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities Better Explained by Taste or Statistics? A Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence
Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Ghekiere, Abel; … - 2020
Scholars have gone to great lengths to chart the incidence of ethnic labour market discrimination. To effectively mitigate this discrimination, however, we need to understand its underlying mechanisms because different mechanisms lead to different counteracting measures. To this end, we reviewed...
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