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employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment … their labor market outcomes affected, while workers working in proximity to coworkers are more affected. The unemployment … rate, decreased hours of work and labor force participation, especially for younger workers, non-white, not married and …
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Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to … expectations about inflation and future growth. Migration plays a significant role to balance wages across regions and countries … be an exception, but the scarcity of workers has been tamed by internal flexibility resulting from more decentralized …
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increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force participation and had no significant impacts on wages …In this ongoing project, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID- 19 on employment and wages in the United …. The negative impacts on labor market outcomes are larger for men, younger workers, Hispanics and less-educated workers …
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. The paper conducts an impact evaluation of the minimum wage legislation for domestic workers introduced in four states in … the short-run and the long-run impact of the legislation on real wages and employment opportunities. Results show a … positive impact of the legislation on real wages in the short-run, with no significant impact in the long-run. Further, the …
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-analysis plan, we investigate the negative impact of the pandemic on unemployment, labour force participation, hours and wages in …, not married, and less edu- cated workers. We investigate whether the economic consequences of this pandemic were larger … for certain occupations. We then built indices for whether (1) workers are relatively more exposed to disease, (2) work …
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, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … the state/NUTS-1 and district level in both the United States and Europe. We find that Indian workers react to asymmetric … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable …
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to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with … decreases strongly associated with the short-term, middle-income countries, females, young and informal workers. Food and rent …
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We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...
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unemployment. This link becomes more evident when wage inflation is disaggregated at sectoral and occupational levels. Using … exogenous variations in local market unemployment as the main identification strategy, a negative correlation between vacancy …-level wage and unemployment is also established. The correlation magnitude, however, is different across regions and skill …
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technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a critical review of the extant literature and the …
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