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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates
Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014
This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
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Wage losses and inequality in developing countries : labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey
Duman, Anil - 2020
We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...
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The dynamics of labour market polarization in Chile : an analysis of the link between technical change and informality
Delaporte, Isaure; Peña, Werner - 2023
in Chile is mostly due to a decrease in the in ow transition rate from unemployment as well as an increase in the out ow … transition rates to unemployment and informality. …
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The unemployment invariance hypothesis and the implications of added and discouraged worker effects in Latin America
Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel; Martín-Román, Ángel - 2023
This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates … focused on the study of time series is used to validate the unemployment invariance hypothesis and explore added and … the unemployment invariance hypothesis in several countries appears to reflect some rigidities that prevent the …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391350
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The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Delaporte, Isaure; Escobar, Julia; Peña, Werner - 2021 - Current version: April 15, 2021
This paper estimates the potential distributional consequences of the first phase of the COVID-19 lockdowns on poverty and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We estimate the share of individuals that are potentially able to remain active under the...
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The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Delaporte, Isaure; Escobar, Julia; Peña, Werner - 2020
This paper evaluates the distributional consequences of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We gather detailed information from national laws and decrees on the strictness and the duration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297318
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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Minh Do - 2024
While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...
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Unemployment and marital breakdown: the Spanish case
González-Val, Rafael; Marcén, Miriam - 2018
This paper explores the relationship between a job loss and marital breakdown using Spanish panel data. The Great Recession in Spain has had severe consequences, representing an interesting framework to analyse the relationship between job loss and marital breakdown. Not only do we study whether...
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