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Activation Programs—Do They Help Young People with Poor Labor Market Prospects Find Work?

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 admin careers, employment, labor, work, youth

In 2008, Sweden introduced a new “activation” program, the Youth Job Guarantee (YJG), to help unemployed youth find jobs though

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Completing an Internship Increases Wages and Probability of Employment

March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 admin careers, college, education, employment

The share of university students completing an internship is as high as 75–80 percent in many countries throughout North America

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What We Learn from Migration to the Fracking Boom

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 admin employment, migration

State-to-state and county-to-county migration is an important way for local economies to recover and adjust after experiencing an unexpected downturn

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How to Increase Workplace Diversity? Start by Asking for Diverse Candidates

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 admin diversity, employment, inequality, work

Many firms have set ambitious goals to increase diversity among their employees, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence

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Spain Cut Unemployment Benefits during the Great Recession, and Labor Rallied

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 admin careers, employment, labor, recession, unemployment

In the turmoil of the Great Recession, the Spanish government reduced the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in relation

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What Happens to Jobs When Minimum Wage Increases Are Tied to Inflation?

June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 admin employment, labor, minimum wage

Economists have been studying how minimum wage increases affect employment for a long time, but indexing the minimum wage to

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When There Aren’t Jobs Close to Home—Do Low-Wage Employers Discriminate Based on Commute Distance?

May 28, 2019June 4, 2019 admin employment, inequality, labor, poverty

Everything else equal, employers might respond differently to a person based on where they live, avoiding people from a neighborhood

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Jobs for Young, Attractive Women and Older Male Managers? The “Age Twist” in Employers’ Gender Requests

May 24, 2019 admin age, employment, gender, inequality, labor

Thousands of articles have been written on gender differentials in labor markets, but almost none have studied employers’ explicit requests

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Cutting Benefits by 50% to Combat Youth Unemployment—Do Young People Get Back to Work Sooner?

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019 admin employment, labor, unemployment

Policies aimed at tackling youth unemployment are a key priority for policymakers because unemployment when young is known to have

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Do paid sick leave mandates damage employment levels?
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No Evidence of Labor Market Disruptions Due to Sick Pay Mandates

April 2, 2019April 2, 2019 admin benefits, employment, labor

The United States is one of very few OECD countries where employers provide sick pay only voluntarily. This has led

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