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How did the COVID-19 crisis affect different types of workers in the developing world?
Kugler, Maurice; Viollaz, Mariana; Duque, Daniel; … - 2021
This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set of high-frequency phone surveys conducted by the World Bank and National Statistics Offices...
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Unemployment paths in a pandemic economy
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Valletta, Robert G. - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to … the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds … the path for measured unemployment, depending on the path of the virus and containment measures and their impact on …
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The great Canadian recovery : the impact of COVID-19 on Canada's labour market
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2022
stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013274013
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Does the recent success of some OECD countries in lowering their unemployment rates lie in the clever design of their labour market reforms?
Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000
unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …
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Do youth employment programs improve labor market outcomes? : a systematic review
Kluve, Jochen; Puerto, Susana; Robalino Aguirre, David A.; … - 2016
This study reviews the evidence on the impact of youth employment programs on labor market outcomes. The analysis looks at the effectiveness of various interventions and the factors that influence program performance including country context, targeted beneficiaries, program design and...
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Policies to help the working class in the aftermath of COVID-19: lessons from the Great Recession
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2021
response successfully offset earnings loses among lower-wage workers, the risk of continued and persistent unemployment remains …
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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil
Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
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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
rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …
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Has the willingness to work fallen during the COVID pandemic?
Faberman, R. Jason; Müller, Andreas; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2022
the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …
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Long social distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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