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Did a successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic come at a cost? : impacts of the outbreak on employment outcomes in Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low … for Vietnam. We employ difference-in-differences econometric models to estimate the causal effects of the lockdown, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389086
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Counteracting unemployment in crises : non-linear effects of short-time work policy
Gehrke, Britta; Hochmuth, Brigitte - 2018
Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845664
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Monetary policy, growth and employment in developing areas : a review of the literature
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2019
of economic growth and the initial state of the economy. Although growth may lead to increasing employment (formal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988624
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Investing in the Trump Era : How Economic Policies Impact Financial Markets
Sargen, Nicholas P. - 2018
range of macro policy issues that will impact the economy and markets in the years ahead. The primary goal of this book is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396773
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Labour Market and Fiscal Policy Adjustments to Shocks : The Role and Implications for Price and Financial Stability in South Africa
Gumata, Nombulelo; Ndou, Eliphas - 2017
This book focuses on the implications of the South African labour market dynamics including labour market reforms and fiscal policy for monetary policy and financial stability. Evidence suggests there are benefits in adopting an approach that coordinates labour market policies and reforms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398087
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Global Economic Uncertainties and Exchange Rate Shocks : Transmission Channels to the South African Economy
Ndou, Eliphas; Gumata, Nombulelo; Ncube, Mthuli - 2017
economy resulting from the 2009 financial crisis. It also assesses the impact of the US economy’s eventual recovery from the …, capital flows and rand/US dollar volatility on the South African economy …Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2. Heightened foreign policy uncertainty shocks on the South African economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398308
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Macroeconomic Policy and a Living Wage : The Employment Act as Redistributive Economics, 1944–1969
Stabile, Donald R. - 2018
. The Act mandated that the president prepare an Economic Report on the state of the economy and how to improve it, and the … -- 5. The Political Economy of the Employment Act of 1946 -- 6. Kennedy's New Frontier: Tax Cuts and Wage Policy -- 7. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396940
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Does integration policy integrate? : the employment effects of Sweden's 2010 reform of the introduction program
Qi, Haodong; Irastorza, Nahikari; Emilsson, Henrik; … - 2019
Sweden, like many other European countries, has seen a surge in refugee immigrants over recent years, which raises a concern about the labour market integration of these newcomers. This paper investigates whether integration policy may improve refugees' labour market performance. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107349
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How did U.S. consumers use their stimulus payments
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. consumers, we study how the large one-time transfers to individuals from the CARES Act affected their consumption, saving and labor supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or paid down debts with their transfers, with only about 15...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266918
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Bringing back the jobs lost to Covid-19 : the role of fiscal policy
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Winkler, Roland - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 55 (2023) 7, pp. 1703-1747
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436091