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context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences … often adopted in regions with higher digital capital. But digital capital smoothed the employment shock beyond the effect of …
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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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decline in employment in recent months as well as declines in consumer spending. While lockdowns have pronounced effects on …
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, expect more difficulties for their businesses going forward. Consequently, such firms are first to cut employment and …
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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
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transfer pricing by the host country affect investment and employment of foreign subsidiaries. The results indicate that …
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Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
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difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …
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We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees’ health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact...
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moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that …
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