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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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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of economic development experienced in the previous decade. We investigate the extent to which the low workforce participation of women can be explained by growing instances of...
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Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR...
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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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