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Grigoli, Francesco; Koczan, Zsoka; Topalova, Petia - 2021

Population aging in advanced economies could have significant macroeconomic implications, unless more individuals choose to participate in labor markets. In this context, the steep increase in the share of older workers who remain economically active since the mid1990s is an overlooked yet...

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The gender pay gap in the US : a matching study

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2019

This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps into "explained" and "unexplained" components. Problems...

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The financial support for long-term elderly care and household saving behaviour

Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo - 2017

We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the household's propensity to save. Using the difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all the Scottish elderly aged 65 and above. We find...

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Labour supply and informal care supply : the impacts of financial support for long-term elderly care

Hollingsworth, Bruce; Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo; … - 2017

We investigate the impact of a policy reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all those aged 65 and above, on caregiving behaviour. Using a difference-indifferences estimator, we estimate that the free formal care reduced the probability of co-residential informal caregiving by...

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The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender gap in education and employment : evidence from Vietnam

Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tran, Anh Ngoc - 2021

education, we find a large and positive effect of tertiary education on employment. It confirms the important role of education … in reducing gender gap in employment. …

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Did a successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic come at a cost? : impacts of the outbreak on employment outcomes in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

transmission. We offer the first study that examines the effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on various employment outcomes … rate, the temporary layoff rate, and decreases the quality of employment. It also reduces workers' numbers of working hours …

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The distributional impacts of early employment losses from COVID-19 : [running head: employment losses from COVID-19]

Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020

COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …

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English skills and early labour market integration : evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia

Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...

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R&D expenditures and employment : evidence from Europe

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labourfriendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment …

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The impact of early marriage on women's employment in the Middle East and North Africa

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017

builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … employment opportunities. …

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