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empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic … experienced a major decline in their employment rate and workhours, as well as gender segregation in the most affected industries …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all …
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As part of a more general process of employment reallocation from less to more productive employers, jobto- job flows …
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educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …
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Employment data in India is far from adequate if policy responses have to be more effective and timely. Most employment … gaps and revamp the existing employment data systems, the government has put in place a Task Force. However, new employment … data is unlikely to be available until the latter half of next year. Understanding and analyzing employment trends in the …
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might affect employment in different ways. A policy shift toward a low-carbon green economy may create new and additional … crowding out of employment in other sectors. In addition, energy prices may increase owing to feed-in tariffs subsidizing …
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This paper describes a search model with a continuum of worker and job types, free entry and transferable utility. We apply a second-order Taylor expansion to characterize the equilibrium, derive the "cost of search" and show that it is decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This...
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industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age, and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in …
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In light of increasingly "smarter" technologies, the future of (human) labour is questioned on a daily basis. A study by Frey and Osborne (2013), one of the most recognised contributions in this domain, estimated that half of the US labour force is highly susceptible to computerisation in the...
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congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender …
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such groups of regions react differently to key drivers of employment and wage setting. We find that the low income (high … turn, the high income (low employment) ones are more sensitive to the wage-productivity gap, and thus to the strategy that …
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