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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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lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i … policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this article focuses …
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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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transmission. We offer the first study that examines the effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on various employment outcomes … rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment … rate, the temporary layoff rate, and decreases the quality of employment. It also reduces workers' numbers of working hours …
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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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that 1,000 asylum seekers create 267 jobs on average in a district. This growth effect is mainly driven by a demand for … the local unemployment rate when more refugees arrive. The dynamic panel data estimates are robust to various sensitivity …
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Objectives: To synthesise the existing reviews conducted on the labour market outcomes of cancer survivors by focusing … existing reviews on labour market outcomes for cancer survivors was performed. Bibliographic search for eligible studies …
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employment variation to provide a causal estimate of winning a PPC on firms' employment. Winning a PPC has a small positive … impact on a firm's short-run employment. The study investigates mechanisms and heterogeneity that can explain the initial …
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find significant effects from minimum wages on employment and monthly wages. However, we find a considerable negative …
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While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...
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