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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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Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
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We study the economic consequences of stress-related occupational illnesses (burnout) using Swedish administrative data. Using a mover design, we find that high-burnout firms and stressful occupations universally raise burnout risk yet disproportionately impact low-stress-tolerance workers....
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unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …
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implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …
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whether policy effects vary across countries depending on the level of economic development and whether institutions have an … influence on economic outcomes. The paper lists of policies and institutions that could be used to quantify the effect of …
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non-OECD countries. The findings suggest that the quality of institutions matters to a large extent for economic outcomes …
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By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …
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We show that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 30 percentage points...
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-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture … capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment. As we expected, venture capital investment has different influences … on sectoral-, educational- and occupational-specific unemployment. We suggest, on the basis of the regression results …
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