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Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...
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We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...
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-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We … other programmes. Effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates are …
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Using CPS data from 1979–2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Women’s relative earnings are harmed by...
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unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …
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receiving unemployment benefits. This paper evaluates the targeting performance and welfare impacts of the program. The paper …
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The crises of the past few years have led to a significant increase in youth unemployment in Europe. This, in turn, has … highlighted the long-standing phenomenon of well above average youth unemployment. In some countries, the youth unemployment rate … reached unprecedented levels, although the rise of unemployment among young people was no more significant than among adults …
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for the design of selected labor market policies including unemployment compensation, employment services and job search … assistance, and job training. -- behavioral economics ; unemployment insurance ; job training ; job search …
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This study aims to examine the characteristics of unemployment and migration of labor in the Northeastern of Thailand … and to study the unemployment problems faced by local workers. The samples used in the study were 455 unemployed workers …-30 years old. The unemployed were mostly single at 52.97%. Factors that relate to the severity of the unemployment problem are …
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This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees, makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...
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