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Showing 1 to 20 of 612 for “"labour market"”.
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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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Essays on Disability and the Labour Market
… The second chapter analyzes the variation in labour market outcomes across disabilities by representing disability as a bundle of characteristics. Rich with information on the characteristics of a disabling condition, I use the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey to compare the …
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Essays on the labour market in Ghana
… we focus on three issues related to the labour market: unemployment, underemployment and informal sector employment. Essay 1 looks at unemployment, the job search and job expectations of the unemployed using a probit model. The results show that unemployment is inequitably distributed in …
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Essays on labour market segmentation in Japan
Properly assessing labour market segmentation and its outcomes are essential for the debate of the policy related to atypical work. This thesis document the labour market segmentation in Japan, construct the model, and do counterfactual simulation to contribute to the policy making. The first …
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On Immigration, Geographic and Labour Market Mobility
… UK in terms of their benefits take-up and their labour supply. I provide evidence that when access to benefits is restricted, immigrants compensate for the foregone income by working more. This is particularly true for females. Nevertheless, even in the absence of any restrictions, immigrants are …
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Essays on Labour Market in Developing Countries
This PhD thesis focuses on determinants of labour market outcomes in development economics with a special interest in South Africa and China. After an introduction in chapter 1, the key chapter 2, Ethnic Diversity and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa joint with Sara …
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Essays on Money, Trade and the Labour Market
… of offshoring on aggregate productivity and on labour market outcomes by developing a dynamic general equilibrium model in which workers acquire task-specific human capital. The dynamic nature of the model allows for differentiation between short and long run effects. While the welfare effects …
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The effect of disability on labour market outcomes
… disability type and disability grants on labour force participation, employment and wages using NIDS data from Wave 1 to Wave 4. Data was analysed as a panel to account for the effects over time. A pooled OLS, a random effects and a fixed effects model were applied on the panel dataset to …
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Labour market and spatial mismatch in Cape Town
The paper undertakes to research a spatial and skills mismatch in the city of Cape Town. The argument is that industry is moving towards the north of the city and away from areas of the south east. This physically displaces low and semi-skilled employees or potential employees who work or seek work …
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Labour Market and Non-labour Market Outcomes of Education in Bangladesh: Does Education Matter in the Formation of Outcomes in Adulthood?
… live in? On one hand, for individuals, there are labour market outcomes of education- i.e., outcomes related to employment such as earnings, employment status and job type- whereby education affects individuals’ labour force participation and individuals’ earnings (Card, 1999; Psacharopoulos & …
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Post-secondary education and the financial services labour market
… gives an overview about the growth of the labour market in financial services in the Maltese economy during the last decade. Special reference is made to post-secondary education. Interviews are carried out with employers and representatives in the related field. Questions refer to …
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Female labour market adjustment processes in the UK coalfields.
… focuses on the processes occurring in the female labour markets of coalfield areas in Great Britain. During the 1980s and 1990s these areas experienced a major loss of male employment as a result of the decline of the coal industry. The research looks at how female employment in these areas was …
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Rationing & Bayesian expectations with application to the labour market
… the present work is to present a micro-economic labour market where heterogenous labour suppliers experience consecu- tive job opportunities and need to decide whether to apply for employ- ment. The labour suppliers are heterogenous with respect to their qualifi- cations and their beliefs about …
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Impacts of deindustrialisation on the labour market and beyond
… of research between 1993 and 2009 into the labour market and labour market-related impacts of the large-scale spatially concentrated losses of industrial jobs in Great Britain from the 1970s to the 1990s. The British conventional wisdom has been that labour market recovery was relatively …
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Labour market participation and frictional unemployment in stochastic equilibria
… shaping unemployment fluctuations in frictional labour markets. In the First Chapter, I document several facts on the behaviour of inactive individuals in the United Kingdom using the Labour Force Survey, observing a high degree of heterogeneity within those that are not classified as being part …
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Essays on career mobility in the UK labour market
… industrial mobility. Using quarterly data of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) from 1992 to 2013, Chapter 2 documents the mobility across occupations and industries (referred to as career change). The findings suggest that occupational and industrial mobility are surprisingly high. Both occupational …
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