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Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union
Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020
This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and health risks created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using various measures of occupational risks, it first shows that immigrant workers, especially those coming from lower-income...
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A structural model of the labor market to understand gender gaps among marginalized Roma communities
Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio; Robayo-Abril, Monica - 2020
This paper constructs and estimates a household-level search model to analyze Roma spouses' utility maximization for leisure, home production, and work. The paper aims to explain labor market gender gaps in a marginalized Roma population with low labor market participation rates (males 53...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296858
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The impact of employer discrimination on female labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from Tunisia
Alaref, Jumana; Towfighian, Samira Nikaein; Paez, Gustavo N. - 2020
unemployment in the country …
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Ex-ante evaluation of the impact of increases in minimum wages on labor market outcomes in Kosovo
Robayo-Abril, Monica; Terskaya, Anastasia; Brodmann, … - 2020
increase to 250 euros per month, the simulated unemployment rate increases by 0.4 percentage point in the short term and about … 0.6 percentage point in the long term. The youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) is anticipated to increase by up to 1 ….1 percentage points in this scenario, a relatively large increase considering the already high levels of unemployment among this …
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Gender gaps in the labor market and economic growth
Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Ozdemir, Kamer Karakurum; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002558
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Labor mobility, economic shocks, and jobless growth : evidence from panel data in Morocco
Verme, Paolo; Barry, Abdoul Gadiry; Guennouni, Jamal; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255013
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The social impact of financial crises: evidence from the global financial crisis ; background paper to the 2014 World Development Report
Ötker-Robe, İnci; Podpiera, Anca Maria - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222248
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2019
The paper reviews 49 empirical studies that estimate the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A review of the empirical models used by these studies and a meta-analysis of 762 separate results collected from them are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 17 major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004820
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Exporting and female labor market outcomes in Georgia
Hollweg, Claire H.; Lopez, Anne Beline Ong - 2020
Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the share of exports in total sales, to explore whether changes in the structure of sales (exporting versus selling to the domestic market) matter for labor market outcomes. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390426
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Incidence of the digital economy and frictional unemployment : international evidence
Lederman, Daniel; Zouaidi, Marwane - 2020
-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation … between national unemployment rates and the incidence of the digital economy, proxied by the share of the adult population … correlation between unemployment and the digital economy, which is due to the existence of a negative bivariate correlation …
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