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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Young workers"”.
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Three Essays Considering The Labor Market Behavior Of Young Workers
… labor market trends, specifically of young workers (ages 18-24). In the United States, young workers decreased their labor market participation by more than 8\% from 1994-2014 and the first chapter of this research considers changing demographics and educational decisions to account …
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Mental health among young workers, the impact of job quality
… more difficult and diversified. Today many young adults (18-34) live under precarious employment conditions (e.g. temporary / part-time), have problems in finding stable employment, are underemployed (e.g. not well-matched to their jobs in terms of skills and / or working hours), and many …
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Gender differences in the labor market experiences of young workers
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1992.
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Flexible or Secure Jobs?: Young Workers and Internships in Ireland and Spain
… as a strategy to assist and improve unemployed young workers’ integration into the labor market. One notable aspect was the Irish and Spanish government’s development of new ALMP internship programs, ones that relied more extensively on demand led activation through firm work experience or ALMP …
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The effect of demographic change on firms' human resource policies
This research focuses on the current shortage of young workers as a result of the baby bust cohort now entering the labor force. Previous studies have shown that the young workers of the baby boom cohort experienced lower relative earnings and higher unemployment because of their large cohort size. …
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Hiring, recessions, and careers : three essays in personnel economics
Workers find wage-growth and job-satisfaction by building careers. However a worker's ability to string together a sequence of jobs relies on the availability of appropriate opportunities either within their current firm or in other firms in the market. In this thesis, I investigate how variation …
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Three Essays in Personnel Economics
… corporate ""downsizing"" in which firms lay off workers---often well-educated workers with high tenure---to an extent far greater than in the past. Recent empirical studies have lent some support to this belief. I argue that this phenomenon can be understood in light of Lazear's theory. The fact …
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Occupational health and safety of young, part-time workers in the United Kingdom and Canada
… society, new risks have emerged for less skilled young workers in flexible labour markets (Mills 2004; Taylor-Gooby 2004). This is highlighted in the fast food industry, renowned for its employment conditions such as low pay, irregular work hours and part-time work (Reiter 2002; Royle 2002). A …
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Ethologie des fourmis Eutetramorium mocquerysi (Emery, 1900) Hymenoptera, Formicidae, en laboratoire
… morphoanatomic castes (worker dominating, workers of high ranks: being able to become dominating, workers of low ranks: veritable worker,and the ant male). As with all social insects, the life of the colony is regulated by the queen. However, in the species studied no veritable queen …
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Work and School A Case Study
This is a study of young workers. It was undertaken as a comparative analysis of the occupational and educational experiences of school leavers. As such it focuses on the link between the educational system and the labour market and, in particular, on the relevance of the educational experiences of …
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Darbo laiko reguliavimas Europos Bendrijoje /
… in the current study. It mainly concerns young workers directive, pregnant workers directive and part-time directive.
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Three Essays on the Macroeconomics of Information
… for the evolution of the skill premium for young workers in the US since the 1970s. I formalize the idea that as college education becomes more affordable for a larger fraction of population, not having a college degree becomes a more precise signal about low ability, increasing the college …
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On the causes and consequences of occupational mobility
… an occupation transition. I build a model where workers differ in their cognitive, manual, and interactive skills, which creates comparative advantage in certain occupations. I estimate this model and show that most of the wage gains for young workers following an occupational transition are due …
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Wage inequality and the role of pre-market skills
… with the change in the gender wage gap for young workers. I decompose the change in the gender wage gap over the entire wage distribution into factors associated with education, pre-market skills and the minimum wage. Improvements in education explain nearly all of the fall in the gap for …
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A policy for the (jobless) youth: the employment tax incentive
… to the academic literature on the demand for young workers by providing insights into this large active labour market policy intervention. The first substantive contribution is the preparation and development of a panel dataset based on payroll tax records. The tax data panel is then used to …
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Three Essays on Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
… learning and statistical discrimination of young workers in the U.S. labor market. The first chapter outlines the dissertation by discussing the motivations, methods, and research findings.<br /><br />Chapter two develops a framework that nests both symmetric and asymmetric employer …
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Movement of heterogeneous goods and people.
… the migration of college-educated Canadian workers to the United States in the 1980 to 2000 period. Young workers migrated at a rate over 10 percent during this period. I develop an overlapping generations model of migration with heterogenous agents and calibrate the model to match the total …
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Exploring digital discourse with Chinese characteristics: contradictions and tensions
… dominant Internet companies in China, and from young workers in China’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Shenzhen. Through the lens of ideology, this thesis provides a critique of how digital discourse from different actors legitimate social relations in the current capitalism in China. In particular, at the …
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“Ownership gets you up in the morning, but can keep you awake at night” An exploration of the development of work-related psychological ownership in early career professionals.
… this research as career- related PO. For these young workers who have been conditioned to believe there is no job for life, the attachment to developing their career seemed exceedingly strong in some participants. This has potential to cause tension between other PO targets, such as the job role …
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