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Rise of the Indian Middle Class and Its Impact on the Labor Market

Eggimann, Andres; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2022

The world is changing its socio-economic landscape. By doing so, the phenomenon of a growing middle-class appears. Both household surveys and growth projections suggest that only about one-third of the global middle class is based in Asia. However, between 2009 and 2017, the global middle-class...

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Long Social Distancing

Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022

More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...

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Labor Market Effects of Bounds on Domestic Outsourcing

Jiménez, Bruno; Rendon, Silvio - 2022

2.3 percentage points while it reduces unemployment by 0.8 percentage points, but has no statistically significant …

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Geographic Mobility over the Life-Cycle

Diaz, Antonia; Jáñez, Álvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2023

a high-unemployment urban area carries with it a large welfare penalty. Less stable jobs, slower skill accumulation …. In contrast, several policies that encourage people to move to low-unemployment urban areas increase these welfare losses …

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What Explains the Growing Gender Education Gap? The Effects of Parental Background, the Labor Market and the Marriage Market on College Attainment

Eckstein, Zvi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023

In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of...

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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Dixon, Robert; Lim, Guay C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2014

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment

Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Winkler, Roland - 2015

In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender...

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The Effects of Large Universal Child Benefits on Female Labour Supply

Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - 2018

In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...

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Labour Market Flows: Accounting for the Public Sector

Fontaine, Idriss; Galvez-Iniesta, Ismael; Gomes, Pedro Maia - 2019

probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …

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The Intergenerational Correlation of Employment: Is There a Role for Work Culture?

Galassi, Gabriela; Koll, David; Mayr, Lukas - 2019

We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United States, linking data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the NLSY79 Children and Young Adults. After controlling for ability, education, and wealth, a...

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