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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Employment effects"”.
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Employment Effects of Corporate Takeovers
… a growing interest in better understanding the employment effects of takeovers. We investigate this issue in four empirical chapters. The first empirical chapter shows that acquired firms’ prior performance is the key variable in explaining post-takeover workforce adjustments: acquired firms’ …
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The employment effects of international tourism in South Africa
… to help reach economic growth goals and boost employment, especially in the previously disadvantaged groups of the population. Nonetheless, no detailed study on the employment effects of tourism to South Africa has been published. This thesis aims to calculate in detail not only how much …
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Jackpot! The Employment Effects of Gaming Revenue Allocation Plans on Native American Tribes
… this analysis, it is apparent that there are no effects of RAPs on unemployment rates in treatment counties – however, there seems to be a slight positive effect on employment-to-population ratios and labor force participation rates. This paper finds that the RAP in 22 counties (by proxy, tribes) …
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Taxation of the South African tobacco industry : with special reference to its employment effects
… and the resultant impact on output and employment in the economy. Real cigarette excise taxes in South Africa have steadily declined over the period 1970 to 1995. As a result there has been a concomitant decrease in the real retail cigarette price, caused primarily by the tax component. …
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A Reexamination of the Wage and Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage Onthe Southern Pine Industry
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:33:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7121262.PDF: 6601918 bytes, checksum: d5397822559904e9efa2003357d420b2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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A theoretical analysis of the labor market wage and employment effects of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The dissertation explores the labor market effects of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from practicing wage discrimination and employment dis- crimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin or color. A theoretical model of the equal wage and the …
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Essays In Labor Economics
… of two papers. In the first paper, I study the employment and welfare effects of short-time work in Germany during the recession between 2008 and 2010. Short-time work is a government program that subsidizes part-time work during economic downturns. Using administrative data, I document that (i) …
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Three essays in economic policy analysis
… The first chapter is an empirical study of the employment effects of minimum wages that are indexed to inflation. The second chapter is an impact evaluation of a land rights program for herders in Mongolia. The third chapter uses the same context as the second, while examinining the link between …
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The Effects of Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Force Participation in The Province of Quebec (Canada)
The purpose of this study is to estimate the effects of legal minimum wage rate changes on the employment and labor force participation ratios of eight age-sex demographic cohorts in the Province of Quebec over the period 1966-1981. Age classes include teenagers, young adults, adults and older …
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A CGE Analysis of the Employment Double Dividend-Hypothesis : Substitution Patterns in Production, Foreign Trade, and Labour Market Imperfections
This thesis deals with the employment double dividend (EDD) hypothesis which claims that an ecological tax reform leads to both a reduction in the unemployment rate and to lower pollution. It assesses the employment effects of ecological tax reforms in a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… joint with Fidan Ana Kurtulus, evaluates the employment effects of the Japanese trade shock of the 1960s-1980s, and whether they were racially disparate. Most importantly, we test whether differential occupational exposure drove racially disparate effects. Using detailed establishment-level …
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The Economic Impact in Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties if a Fruit and Vegetable Processor Left as a Result of Changes in the Food Processing Byproduce Use Program
… were studied—output, value-added, taxes, and employment. A sensitivity analysis was run to establish a range of possible value and the analysis yielded significantly higher results. It was estimated that program modification would result in significant fiscal and employment effects for …
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Do improvements in environmental performance lead to job loss?
… Furthermore, these responses can affect employment in different ways, depending on whether abatement activities require more or less labor and their effect on the scale of output. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of facilities’ voluntary reductions in toxic emissions on …
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Essays in the microeconometric evaluation of public policies
… on the impact of UK National Minimum Wage on employment. We highlight that this literature has em- ployed difference-in-difference designs, which have significant challenges in conducting appropriate inference and very low power when inference is conducted appropriately. In addition, the …
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Three Essays in Economic Analyses of Carbon Taxes
… implemented in 2008. Chapter 1 focuses on the employment effect of the policy. I find that while all industries appear to benefit from recycling of tax revenues, the most carbon-intensive and trade-sensitive industries see employment fall with the tax, while clean service industries see …
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Labor Migration in China
… networks affect migrants' migration decisions, employment, and wage levels by using 2005 China's mini-census. Different from existing studies, this paper takes into account the existence of self-selection in the labor market. With the help of a theoretical model, we have a better understanding …
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Essays in Health Economics
… individual level and could also have indirect effects at the household level. In addition, the effects on healthcare use and health status are also examined. This dissertation consists of three chapters.</p> <p>The first chapter looks at the effect of changes in Medicaid policy on legal …
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Three Essays in Economic Inequality
… decades, and the last chapter examines the employment effect of raising the minimum wage, a policy commonly used to support low-wage workers to mitigate increasing inequality. The first chapter investigates why the upsurge of top income shares has coincided with economic slowdowns in the …
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