India has glorious sericulture tradition of its own, which no other country in the world can share. Silk is indispensable in ceremonies and religious rituals, being a must in weddings and festivals. India’s traditional and culture bound domestic market and an amazing diversity of silk garments that reflect geographic specificity helped the country to achieve a leading position in silk industry....

In a high tax, high minimum wage labor market like France, payroll subsidies can reduce the minimum labor cost and expand employment opportunities for the low-skilled. Effects of these subsidies go beyond the directly affected. A particular concern is that high quality jobs may be replaced with lower quality ones, which hurts the employment opportunities of highly skilled workers and is costly ...

Labor Market Institutions and Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment Graduating from a school during a time of adverse economic conditions has a persistent, harmful effect on workers’ subsequent employment opportunities. An analysis of panel data from OECD countries during the 1960-2010 periods reveals that a worker who experiences a one-percentage-point higher unemployment rate while the work...

Mazza, Rhonda. 2003. Hunter demand for deer on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska: an analysis of influencing factors. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-581. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 21 p. Overall hunter demand for deer on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, has not changed significantly in the last 10 years, although demand has increased i...

This paper uses population panel data from Sweden to investigate the causes and consequences of self-employment over the life cycle, and to evaluate how self-employment decisions can be influenced by policy. In the first part of the paper, I use machine learning methods to summarize the patterns of self-employment behavior observed in the data. I find that careers involving self-employment fit ...

• We investigate the change in worker flows within firms around an investment automation-intensive goods. identify ”automation spikes” using imports of capital goods embedding automation technologies. find that spikes are linked to increase firms’ net employment growth rate. The is explained by a higher hiring and lower separation. Workforce composition does not appear significantly following a...