Similar Search Results

The path through : early COVID-19 job loss and labour market trajectories in Austria

Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2024

the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534535

The unemployment invariance hypothesis and the implications of added and discouraged worker effects in Latin America

Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel; Martín-Román, Ángel - 2023

This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates … focused on the study of time series is used to validate the unemployment invariance hypothesis and explore added and … the unemployment invariance hypothesis in several countries appears to reflect some rigidities that prevent the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546014

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

rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391350

The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Minh Do - 2024

While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557664

The iceberg decomposition : a parsimonious way tomap the health of labour markets

Baert, Stijn - 2020

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249694

Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU

Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024

This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014558979

Labor market and macroeconomic dynamics in Latin America amid COVID : the role of digital adoption policies

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Nuguer, Victoria - 2022

, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496287

The occupations of free women and substitution with enslaved workers in the antebellum United States

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164106

Gender gaps in employment, wages, and work hours : assessment of COVID-19 implications

Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has highly asymmetric effects on labour market outcomes of men and women. In this paper, we empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544966

Access to finance employment growth and firm performance of South Asia firms

Bui, Anh Tuan; Pham Chi Linh; Ta Van Thi Khan - 2021

Using firm-level data on 11,000 companies across seven countries in South Asia, this paper explores the effects of access to finance on employment growth and performance at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the impact of financing obstacles varies across firm sizes. The results show that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012672307