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Economic crises and the added worker effect in the Turkish labor market
Değirmenci, Serkan; Ilkkaracan, İpek - 2013
world) and the limited scope of the country's unemployment insurance scheme, there appears to be ample room for a female … added worker effect as a household strategy against unemployment shocks under economic crises. Using micro data from … household labor force surveys for the 2004-10 period, we examine the extent to which an unemployment shock to the primary male …
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The economic crisis of 2008 and the added worker effect in transition countries
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2013
Following the financial crisis of 2008, transition countries - the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union - experienced an increase in female labor force participation rates and a decrease in male labor force participation rates, in part because male-dominated...
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The early impact of COVID-19 on job losses among Black women in the United States
Holder, Michelle; Jones, Janelle; Masterson, Thomas - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater share of America's low-wage labor force than men. Even...
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Black employment trends since the Great Recession
Masterson, Thomas - 2018
The Great Recession had a devastating impact on labor force participation and employment. This impact was not unlike other recessions, except in size. The recovery, however, has been unusual not so much for its sluggishness but for the unusual pattern of recovery in employment by race. The black...
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Employment guarantee programs : a survey of theories and policy experiences
Kaboub, Fadhel (contributor) - 2007
to be addressed in the context of the global political economy. -- ELR ; Full Employment ; Unemployment ; Job Creation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727004
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The unpaid care workpaid work connection
Antonopoulos, Rania (contributor) - 2008
In order to provide a coherent perspective of gender differences in the world of work, this paper argues, the many intersections of paid and unpaid work must be brought to light. It is well documented that gender-based wage differentials and occupational segregation continue to characterize the...
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The Freedom Budget at 45 : functional finance and full employment
Forstater, Mathew - 2011
were supported by a host of scholars, civic leaders, and institutions, including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr … policies. -- Unemployment ; Full Employment ; Budget Deficits ; National Debt ; Public Policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990923
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Reorienting fiscal policy : a critical assessment of fiscal fine-tuning
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2013
The present paper offers a fundamental critique of fiscal policy as it is understood in theory and exercised in practice. Two specific demand-side stabilization methods are examined here: conventional pump priming and the new designation of fiscal policy effectiveness found in the New Consensus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787031
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Public job-creation programs : the economic benefits of investing in social care? ; case studies in South Africa and the United States
Antonopoulos, Rania; Kim, Kijong - 2011
This paper demonstrates the strong impacts that public job creation in social care provisioning has on employment creation. Furthermore, it shows that mobilizing underutilized domestic labor resources and targeting them to bridge gaps in community-based services yield strong pro-poor income...
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On lower-bound traps : a framework for the analysis of monetary policy in the "age" of central banks
Palacio Vera, Alfonso (contributor) - 2006
We present a simple theoretical framework that integrates the notion of the natural or neutral interest rate, liquidity preference theory, and the monetary policy practice by modern central banks. We claim that this theory explains the conditions under which an economy will experience an...
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