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shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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We document how differences in labour demand by gender explain the contrasting evolutions of labour force participation … occupational segregation by gender. As a result, the large job losses in middle-paid occupations during the Great Recession … mobility of men and women responded to these shocks.We find that the labour force participation of women increased considerably …
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This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self …-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups …, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …
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This paper analyzes the existence of short- and long-term intergenerational correlation of employment and self-employment … employment status of parents and that of their children. However, short-term correlation of self-employment seems to be driven …, estimates show a strong and significant correlation between respondents' self-employment status, and that of their parents when …
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progression by gender. Using the panel data collected by the MORE project (Mobility Survey of the Higher Education Sector) - a …
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This paper analyses the age dimension of changes in the task composition of jobs in 12 European countries between 1998 and 2014. We use the approach proposed by Autor et al. (2003) and Acemoglu & Autor (2011), and combine O*NET occupation content data with EU-LFS individual data to construct...
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Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eight countries during … models for search effort that control for human capital, pay, local unemployment, gender, and time and country fixed effects …. These results are robust to disaggregation by gender and country and to individual fixed effects. These empirical results …
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Have recent trends in globalization changed the positive link between trade openness and social insurance? The consensus view - that voters want better social insurance against income loss the more open the economy - is seemingly contested by the rise of populism and the China shock. We present...
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Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and...
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