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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services

D’Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; … - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...

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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

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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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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; 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 impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do Minh - 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 effects of COVID-19 on labour market matching in Austria : a regional and sectoral perspective

Christl, Michael; Kiss, Áron; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2024

-19 pandemic, overall labour market conditions were relatively stable, with mismatched unemployment returning to pre …

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The short-term economic consequences of COVID-19 : occupation tasks and mental health in Canada

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Brodeur, Abel; Mikola, Derek; … - 2020

-analysis plan, we investigate the negative impact of the pandemic on unemployment, labour force participation, hours and wages in …

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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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Price, sales, and the business cycle : a time series principal component analysis

Borraz, Fernando; Livan, Giacomo; Rodríguez-Martínez, … - 2020

find a positive and significant relationship between sales and unemployment and perform a time series principal component …

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