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Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 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.
Melinda Erdmann +4 more
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Integrating refugees into labor markets
IZA World of Labor, 2016 For the first time since the Second World War, the total number of refugees amounts to more than 50 million people. Only a minority of these refugees seek asylum, and even fewer resettle in developed countries.
Pieter Bevelander
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Labor Market Patterns Since 2007 [PDF]
, 2018 [Excerpt] The period since 2007 has been a time of significant change for labor markets. The Great Recession of 2007-2009, the longest and deepest recession since the Great Depression, caused the unemployment rate to briefly reach 10%, and labor markets ...
Donovan, Sarah A, Labonte, Marc
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Immigrants, Productivity, and Labor Markets
, 2016 Immigration has been a steady force acting on population and employment within countries throughout human history. Focusing on the last four decades, we show that the mix of immigrants to rich countries has been, overall, rather balanced between college ...
G. Peri
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Labor markets: A critical link between global-local shocks and their impact on agriculture
Environmental Research Letters, 2023 Labor markets can shape the impacts of global market developments and local sustainability policies on agricultural outcomes, including changes in production and land use.
Srabashi Ray +4 more
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Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies [PDF]
This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades.
Lehmann, Hartmut, Muravyev, Alexander
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Twenty-Five Years After the ADA: Situating Disability in America’s System of Stratification
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2015 Americans with disabilities represent a significant proportion of the population. Despite their numbers and the economic hardships they face, disability is often excluded from general sociological studies of stratification and inequality. To address some
Michelle Maroto, David Pettinicchio
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Local Labor Markets and Natural Resources: A Synthesis of the Literature
, 2016 A primary way that natural resources affect a locality is through the demand for labor, with greater extraction requiring more workers. Shifts in labor demand can be measured through changes in employment and earnings, the main labor market outcomes, or ...
Joseph T. Marchand, Jeremy G. Weber
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Making sense of Arab labor markets: the enduring legacy of dualism
Social Science Research Network, 2014 It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high youth unemployment, weak private sectors, rapidly growing but highly distorted educational attainment, and low and stagnant ...
R. Assaad
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Labor Markets and Poverty in Village Economies
, 2015 We study how women's choices over labor activities in village economies correlate with poverty and whether enabling the poorest women to take on the activities of their richer counterparts can set them on a sustainable trajectory out of poverty.
Imran Rasul
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