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Assessing the distributive effects of minimum wage
Borraz, Fernando; González Pampillón, Nicolás - 2017
This paper analyzes the role of Uruguay's sharp minimum wage increases after 2004 amidst the country's slight wage inequality decrease. We found that the minimum wage increase has contributed to the reduction of wage inequality for formal workers mainly. However, we also found a negative impact...
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Who lost the most? : distributive effects of COVID-19 pandemic
Aina, Carmen; Brunetti, Irene; Mussida, Chiara; … - 2021
This paper investigates what happened to the wage distribution in Italy during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. It shows which categories of workers and economic sectors have suffered more than others and to what extent both the actual level of smart-working and the ability to Working...
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The old-age pension household replacement rate in Belgium
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Fraikin, Anne-Lore - 2022
The objective of the paper is to examine the retirement behaviour of Belgian workers in one-earner households who are automatically granted a more generous old-age pension benefits replacement rate, called the household replacement rate. Following a recommendation of the Belgian Pension Reform...
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people to be unhappy? : evidence from a six-country survey
Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021
Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people unhappy? In this study, we use a recent survey from China, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore this question. We find a relatively large effect: a one per-mille point increase in the incidence of the COVID-19...
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Labor market policy and subjective well-being during the Great Recession
Morgan, Robson; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019
Average subjective well-being decreased in Europe during the Great Recession, primarily among people with less than a college education and people younger than retirement age. However, some countries fared better than others depending on their labor market policies. More generous unemployment...
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France and Germany exceed Italy, South Korea and Japan in temperature-adjusted Corona proliferation : a quick and dirty Sunday morning analysis
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2020
trend in France and Germany now exceeds the one in Italy, South Korea and Japan. At the same time, the containment measures … seem more intense in Italy, South Korea and Japan than in France and Germany. Nevertheless, decision makers in France and … Germany as in other countries need to compare the costs of containment (such as various forms of shut downs, cancellations of …
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Citizens' opinions of and experiences with government responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Viet Nam
Huyen Thanh Do; Cuong Viet Nguyen; Long Thanh Nguyen; … - 2022
This study explores the impact of COVID-19 and how Vietnamese citizens perceived and experienced measures adopted by central and local governments to contain the CVODI-19 pandemic in 2021. In general, the COVID-19 pandemic had a more severe impact in 2021 than in 2020. Citizens showed great...
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China's labor market demand in the shadow of COVID-19 : evidence from an online job board
Zeng, Xiangquan; Chu, Shuai; Chen, Xuan - 2022
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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The impact evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (new school) program on students' cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Glewwe, Paul; Lee, Jongwook; Khoa Vu - 2022
This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by the World Bank, affected the cognitive (mathematics and Vietnamese) and non-cognitive (socioemotional) skills of students in that country. We use propensity score matching to...
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Economic geography of contagion : a study on Covid-19 outbreak in India
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban - 2022
We propose a regional inequality-based mechanism to explain the heterogeneity in the spread of Covid-19 and test it using data from India. We argue that an area characterized by coreperiphery economic structure creates regional inequality in which the periphery remains dependent on the core for...
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