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The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Exposure to Disease, Remote Work and Government Response
Béland, Louis-Philippe; Brodeur, Abel; Wright, Taylor - 2020
- creased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force participation and had no significant impacts on wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202735
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214746
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219741
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Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn Halenda - 2020
Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and societal expectations of female’s role, and lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237648
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The Occupations of Free Women and Substitution with Enslaved Workers in the Antebellum United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022
This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093095
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Women at Work in the United States Since 1860: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn Halenda - 2021
Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force...
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