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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Labour economics"”.
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Essays in Empirical Labour Economics
… expands employment opportunities and reduces labour market transitions. At the worker level, those who are either high-skilled, white-collar, or employed in more productive firms experience employment and earnings gains. Meanwhile at the firm-level, sales and value added increase, while …
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Essays in family and labour economics
This thesis explores family and labour economics issues in the context of different countries, the unified motive is to gain policy implication by applying diversified micro-econometric tools into different datasets. The UK has experienced the 1999 Working Family Tax Credit and the 2003 Working and …
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Three essays in Health and Labour Economics
… that focus on childcare availability, maternal labour supply and children’s health. Chapter 1 analyses the impact of extending childcare availability on maternal labour outcomes in Russia. I exploit a substantial variation in childcare availability across regions over time. Based on survey data …
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Essays in labour economics: School leaving, unemployment and retirement
… of British 16-year-olds responds to local labour market conditions. The findings show that prevailing unemployment rates influence the schooling decisions of students from a less affluent family background, while students from better-off families tend to enrol in post-compulsory education …
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Three applications using panel data
… comprises three applied studies related to labour economics that utilise different Panel Datasets, assembled by the Author from public sources. The common Aim in all three studies is to determine whether the conclusions drawn from regression-based modelling would have been significantly …
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Ability and motivation in the new world of work : a study of socio-demographic characteristics among school leavers entering the labour market
… an immense challenge for the education system, labour economics, industrial productivity and social benefits reliance. Early school leavers represent individuals who may not have the necessarily up-to-date skills and competencies to make it into the labour market in the way the world of work is …
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Gender Differences in Earnings and Occupational Attainment in Europe
Despite significant increases in female labour market participation and educational achievement in the EU in recent decades, women still trail men in terms of employment rates, earnings and occupational attainment. This thesis is about the interplay between the characteristics of individuals …
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Money Matters? Essays on human capital accumulation, occupational choice and worker productivity.
… of three chapters in the topic of applied labour economics. The first chapter investigates the determinants of higher education (HE) participation using new data on university-related subjective expectations elicited from parents and young people in the Innovation Panel of the UK Household …
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Economic influences on and impacts of the migration of health professionals
… has become an important feature of health labour markets due to the global shortage of health professionals. While there exists an extensive Labour Economics literature studying the general migration, policy development remains hampered by limited research undertaken in the health sector. …
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"Informalisation of employment and career trajectories in the gig economy: evidence from ehailing drivers Cape Town"
… The study was situated at the intersection of labour economics and information systems research around the gig economy. This study contributes to literature on ehailing studies and career trajectories of gig workers. In addition, the aspect of informality and the mapping of the ehailing …
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Variation in treatment: an analysis of dental radiographs using matched patient provider data
… in micro-econometric methods, documented in the labour economics literature. Although the thesis is predominantly an empirical analysis, the estimation strategy combines ideas from both the theoretical and empirical literature. A matched patient provider dataset from NHS Scotland is used to …
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Essays on Behavioural Finance and Sports Economics
… behavioural finance framework as well as sports economics. We explored sports clubs’ wages and other team characteristics to explain managerial behaviour with regard to players’ playing time. Additionally, we conjectured that playing at home could affect team performance, and subsequently derived …
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The impact of the agricultural minimum wage and the role of enforcement in South Africa
… schedule covering eleven sectors of the economy. Labour market institutions were also created to enforce the new laws; the efficacy of which has hitherto remained unexamined. The legislated minimum wage in South Africa varies across, and within sectors. Mandated wages within a sector can differ …
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Flexible Work Arrangements in Greece: Theoretical Perspectives and Evidence from Employers and Employees
… Flexible Work Arrangements (FWAs) in the Greek labour market and theoretical perspectives that may explain employers’ and employees’ perceptions of flexible working in Greece. Its objectives are: (1) to contribute to the sociology of work and labour economics literatures, by revisiting …
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Three essays on Informal Care, Health, and Education
… to an elderly parent affects the caregiver's labour market outcomes, cognitive ability, and health; and study the influence of the institutional background on the caregiving decision and the effects of caregiving. My results show that negative effects on labour market outcomes can be avoided …
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Minimum Wage: Theoretical and Empirical Debates
<p>This thesis aims to explore the evolution of research methodologies in the minimum wage debate, focusing on the contrasting perspectives of the neoclassical and institutional models. By examining the changes in research methodologies employed by economists from these two schools, this study …
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Econometric Analysis of Labour Market Interventions
… and application of econometric analysis to labour market interventions. One essay is methodological, and two essays are applications. The first essay contributes to the literature on inference with data sets containing within-cluster correlation. The essay highlights a problem with current …
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Three Essays on Labour and Public Economics
The first chapter studies how the nature of export-demand shocks shapes the adjustment of firms and workers. Using Canadian linked employer-employee data for 2005--2019, I construct firm-specific exposure to global demand shifts during the Great Recession and develop a decomposition of export …
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The London gasworks : a technical, commercial and labour history to 1914
… of the National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers down to 1914. Part Two concludes with some analysis to explain the major variables in the labour relations of the gasworks, especially wages, strikes and the level of union membership.