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Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023

How costly are droughts to individuals’ nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite …, unlike recurring droughts, a first-time exposure to a three-month severe drought reduces individuals’ body mass index by 2 …

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Labor Markets During the Covid-19 Crisis : A Preliminary View

Coibion, Olivier - 2020

We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million...

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Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth - An International Comparison

Rottmann, Horst; Flaig, Gebhard - 2021

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD...

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Firm Heterogeneity and the Labour Market Effects of Trade Liberalisation

Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2021

This paper develops a model that incorporates workers' fair wage preferences into a general equilibrium framework with monopolistic competition between heterogeneous firms à la Melitz (2003). By assuming that the wage considered to be fair by workers depends on the productivity and thus the...

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Inclusive Monetary Policy : How Tight Labor Markets Facilitate Broad-Based Employment Growth

Bergman, Nittai; Matsa, David A.; Weber, Michael - 2022

This paper analyzes the heterogeneous effects of monetary policy on workers with differing levels of labor force attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations with lower labor force attachment—Blacks, high...

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Labor Market Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions

Ulate, Mauricio; Zarate, Roman D.; Vasquez, Jose P. - 2023

We examine the labor market consequences of recent global supply chain disruptions induced by COVID-19. Specifically, we consider a temporary increase in international trade costs similar to the one observed during the pandemic and analyze its effects on labor market outcomes using a...

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"The Double Dividend of Training" - Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland

Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...

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Cousins from Overseas : The Labour Market Impact of a Major Forced Return Migration Shock

Bohnet, Lara; Peralta, Susana; Pereira dos Santos, João - 2022

We study the labour market impact of a major shock of return migration, following the end of the Portuguese Colonial War in 1974. The retornados influx is unique because of its size (half a million people in a country of nine million), and similarity with the native population (almost 80% of the...

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Droughts and Farms' Financial Performance in New Zealand : A Micro Farm-Level Study

Pourzand, Farnaz - 2019

current (same fiscal year) drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms’ revenue and profit; this effect is most likely … attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In … general, dairy farmers ‘benefit’ more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …

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Impacts of Droughts and Floods on Agricultural Productivity in New Zealand as Measured from Space

Blanc, Élodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022

This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...

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