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The effect of COVID-19 on the gender gap in remote work
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2024
We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the … COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with … WFH being more prevalent among women than among men. Respondents' job traits played a significant role in the gender gap …
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Variable Pay and Work Hours: Does Performance Pay Reduce the Gender Time Gap?
Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2024
Using German survey data, we show that performance pay is associated with a substantially lower gender hours gap. While … specialization by gender. Thus, we show that performance pay is not associated with increased hours for men with children in the …
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Americans’ Responses to Terrorism and Mass-Shooting: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey and Well-Being Module
Clark, Andrew; Stancanelli, Elena - 2017
A small but significant literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, although the impact of mass-shooting has not yet been addressed by economists. We compare the economic effects of two tragedies: the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing and the 2012 Sandy Hook School Shooting. Fatal...
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The Short-Term Effect of COVID-19 on Self-Employed Workers in Canada
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020
Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
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Canadian Small Businesses’ Employees and Owners during COVID-19
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020
Canadian employers are largely small businesses. Their relevance for job creation and labour demand is integral for policymakers concerned with adverse labour market outcomes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) we document how the self-employed,...
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Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?
Albanese, Andrea; Ghirelli, Corinna; Picchio, Matteo - 2019
We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation in eligibility rules in Italy. By using a difference-indifferences estimator, we find an instantaneous increase of about 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit...
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The Response of Firms to Maternity Leave and Sickness Absence
Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan M. - 2020
The costs to a firm of employee absence depend on how easy it is to find a replacement. We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences that arise from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over two million spells of leave in...
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The Response of Firms to Maternity Leave and Sickness Absence
Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan M. - 2022
We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in Brazil, we identify the short-run effects of a leave spell starting on firms' employment, hiring,...
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Theory and Empirics of Short-Time Work: A Review
Bermudez, Natalia; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Tarullo, Giulia - 2023
Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary...
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Temporal Changes to the Added Worker Effect Associated with Spousal Job Loss
Connolly, Laura E.; Jolly, Nicholas A. - 2024
This paper utilizes the 1968-2019 survey waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyze the added worker effect for wives of husbands who lose their job through no fault of their own. Specifically, we focus on the potential changes to the added worker effect over time. For wives who were...
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