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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 long-term earnings' effects of a credit market disruption

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2023

This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...

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COVID-19, stay-at-home orders and employment : evidence from CPS data

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Brodeur, Abel; Wright, Taylor - 2020

employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment … their labor market outcomes affected, while workers working in proximity to coworkers are more affected. The unemployment …, these policies increased unemployment by nearly 4 percentage points, but reduced COVID-19 cases by 186,600-311,000, and …

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Reflections on wage-setting

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....

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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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Long live the vacancy

Häfke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 2020

joint unemployment and vacancy dynamics. We show conditions for constrained efficiency and discuss important implications of …

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Wage setting and unemployment : evidence from online job vacancy data

Faryna, Oleksandr; Pham, Tho; Talavera, Oleksandr; … - 2020

unemployment. This link becomes more evident when wage inflation is disaggregated at sectoral and occupational levels. Using … exogenous variations in local market unemployment as the main identification strategy, a negative correlation between vacancy …-level wage and unemployment is also established. The correlation magnitude, however, is different across regions and skill …

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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe

Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022

This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage...

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Ethnic identity and immigrants' labour market outcomes

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021

The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...

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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...

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