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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 …

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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...

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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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The iceberg decomposition : a parsimonious way tomap the health of labour markets

Baert, Stijn - 2020

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on self-employed workers in Canada

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020

Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...

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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina

Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022

, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …

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Adjustments of local labour markets to the COVID-19 crisis : the role of digitalisation and working-from-home

Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2022

months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets …

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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics

Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020

The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...

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