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The employment effects of a pandemic wage subsidy
Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023
We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures. Our estimates use administrative microdata and a regression discontinuity strategy to estimate the effects of marginal changes in the wage subsidy rate. The estimated net wage...
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Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time : a novel method applied to the Covid-19 crisis in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2020
The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
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Labor markets during the covid-19 crisis : a preliminary view
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 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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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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Labor market effects of COVID-19 in Sweden and its neighbors : evidence from novel administrative data
Juranek, Steffen; Paetzold, Jörg; Winner, Hannes; … - 2020
This paper studies the labor market effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the Nordic countries which showed one of the highest variations in NPIs despite having similar community spread of COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic: While...
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Chancen für einen Aufschwung in Deutschland
Hinze, Jörg - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 3, pp. 207-208
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Erwerbstätigkeit auf Rekordniveau: Ergebnis richtiger Arbeitsmarktpolitik?
Klinger, Sabine; Bonin, Holger; Horn, Gustav A.; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 3, pp. 143-158
Die Erwerbstätigkeit befindet sich in Deutschland auf einem Höchststand. Die Ursachen hierfür sind vielfältig und nicht …
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Upswing in Europe gains momentum, but unemployment remains high
Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Scheide, Joachim; Schlie, Markus - 1997
The expansion of Western European production accelerated in the first half of 1997. Exports were the main engine, driven by a devaluation of European currencies and strong growth abroad. Domestic demand also picked up somewhat led by investment in machinery and equipment. Inflation remained at...
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Weltkonjunktur und deutsche Konjunktur im Frühjahr 2007
Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Oskamp, Frank; Sander, Birgit; … - 2007
zulegen. Dabei wird die Expansion Deutschland etwas höher sein als im übrigen Euroraum. Im Verlauf des kommenden Jahres wird … Arbeitslosigkeit sinkt unter 7 Prozent. - [Aufschwung in Deutschland setzt sich nur wenig verlangsamt fort] Der Aufschwung in … Deutschland setzt sich kraftvoll fort. Anders als bisher von uns erwartet, dürfte die gesamtwirtschaftliche Produktion zu …
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Weltkonjunktur und deutsche Konjunktur im Sommer 2007
Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Oskamp, Frank; Sander, Birgit; … - 2007
wohl vorerst weiter in geringerem Tempo als das Produktionspotential. - [Aufschwung in Deutschland bleibt kräftig] Der … konjunkturelle Aufschwung in Deutschland bleibt kräftig. Vor allem wegen der sehr günstigen Frühindikatoren heben wir unsere Prognose …
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