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IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON LABOR MARKETS OF ARCTIC TERRITORIES OF CIRCUMPOLAR COUNTRIES
The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened human safety and well-being, has outlined new requirementsfor the functioning of sectors of the economy and social sphere that directly determine the conditions of life, and has required timely comprehension of the ...
Elena A. Korchak
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This paper examines the effects of employment protection legislation (EPL) reforms on employment outcomes in Croatia, testing the available theoretical predictions of partial labour market reforms from the literature.
Iva Tomic
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Taxation and Labor Markets [PDF]
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Pierre Picard, Eric Toulemonde
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Agricultural Resources and Trade Strategies: Response to Falling Land-to-Labor Ratios in Malawi
This study assesses how growing land scarcity relative to family labor is influencing farm household decisions to trade in agricultural land and labor markets to improve their livelihood.
Sarah Ephrida Tione
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There has been a significant and steady drop in the unemployment rate since late 2009, but unemployment duration remains high and employment as a percentage of the working-age population has not recovered.
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Immigrants and the Labor Market [PDF]
This article examines skill gaps between immigrants and native‐born Americans and generational progress achieved by different immigrant ethnic groups. Evidence of a widening skill gap is not strong. While wage data show a pronounced fall in relative wages of “recent” immigrants, significant independent contributors to that decline are a widening age ...
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Workers and jobs are naturally heterogeneous and the quality of their interaction when paired is difficult to forecast. The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening? I discuss three labor market features that may be altered: how worker-firm matches are made; how labor services are ...
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Sorting in the Labor Market [PDF]
This review surveys the literature on sorting in the labor market. There are inherent differences in worker ability and across-firm productivity. Two fundamental questions are whether the exact composition of skills of workers and productivity of firms affects output and how this composition determines the equilibrium allocation of workers within a ...
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Information Cascades in the Labor Market [PDF]
A model of herding behavior on the labor market is discussed where employers only receive signals with limited precision about the workers' types, but can observe previous employers' decisions. In particular, we study a situation where the employer and the worker can influence the signal probabilities, in the sense that the employer tries to increase ...
Dorothea F. Kübler, Georg Weizsacker
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Despite the increases in women's educational attainment in recent decades, female labor market participation and labor market returns are still lower than those of their male counterparts.
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