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This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay...
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US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms … suggested, while at the same time the majority of the world’s poor had benefited insufficiently from stronger economic growth …
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plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of …
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world have altered the transmission mechanism of international business cycles to Latin America. Evidence based on a Global … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … associated with a deceleration in China's economic growth in the future for both Latin America and the rest of the world economy …
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The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...
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the effect of a program in Mexico that granted firms in certain industries wage subsidies if they decided to keep their …
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This study investigates the long-term effects of initial labor market conditions by comparing cohorts who graduated from college before, during, and after the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis in South Korea. We measure the overall welfare effect by examining their labor market activities, family...
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We examine the impact of COVID-19 on employment in South Korea as of June 2020. To estimate the causal effect, we use two complementary methods. First, using individual-level data without residence information, we estimate the effects by controlling for detailed characteristics of individuals....
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I document that emerging markets have cast off their "original sin" their external liabilities are no longer dominated by foreign-currency debt and have instead shifted sharply towards direct investment and portfolio equity. Their external assets are increasingly concentrated in foreign exchange...
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The current financial and economic crisis has resulted in the worst global recession since World War II. The subsequent … destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and …
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