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the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …
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Unlike the global trend, India has witnessed a secular decline in women's employment rates over the past few decades. We use parametric and semi-parametric decomposition techniques to show that changes in individual and household attributes fully account for the fall in women's labor force...
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Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was offered to a randomly selected group of married couples (non-network treatment)...
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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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We highlight the role of home productivity in explaining the gender gap in labor force participation (LFP), and the non-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United Kingdom, U.K.). We construct a model...
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This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …
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We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …
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