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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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This study provides a critical assessment of various fiscal policy instruments - including direct public job creation, active labour market and care policies, social protection measures and tax reforms - and their effectiveness in supporting the most vulnerable groups in the labour market....
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EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …
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the local unemployment rate when more refugees arrive. The dynamic panel data estimates are robust to various sensitivity …
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labor market policies. More generous unemployment support, which provided income replacement or programs to assist … unemployed workers find jobs, mitigated the negative effects for most of the population, although not youth. In contrast …, stricter employment protection legislation exacerbated the negative effects. We present further evidence that suggests the …
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document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment …COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
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-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy … increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high … school graduates accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, because they substitute private for public and …
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youth employment and education in Turkey. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference …-in-discontinuities analysis, we find that increasing the minimum wage reduces the employment probability of young males by 2.5-3.1 percentage …, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and training" (NEET) category notably …
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difference between men and women: while many male workers took up informal employment, most female workers dropped out of the … search or employment. Our findings suggest that bridging the gap between rural youths and urban formal labour markets …
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Using data of the largest online job board in China, Zhaopin.com, we examine the impacts of the lockdown policy on the Chinese labor market demand during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The analyses reveal that the lockdown policy, which was implemented in Wuhan on January 23, 2020,...
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