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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
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, reduced the labor market demand drastically. Specifically, the "Number … allowing the labor demand to rebound four weeks after the outbreak. The heterogeneity analyses reveal that the industries with …
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The effects of COVID-19 on employment, labour markets and gender equality in Central America
Webster, Allan D.; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
This study considers the economic impact of Covid-19 on enterprises in four Central American countries - El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. At the time of the analysis neither the pandemic nor its economic consequences had fully run their course. It is not, therefore, a definitive...
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Does relative age affect speed and quality of transition from school to work?
Fumarco, Luca; Vandromme, Alessandro; Halewyck, Levi; … - 2022
We are the first to estimate the impact of relative age (i.e., the difference in classmates' ages) on both speed and quality of individuals' transition from education to the labour market. Moreover, we are the first to explore whether and how this impact passes through characteristics of...
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The intensity of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions and labor market outcomes in the public sector
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2020
differentially impacted the public sector labor market outcomes. This extends the analysis of the already documented negative ….3% using data on labor market outcomes from the monthly Current Population Survey and difference-in-difference models. This is …
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The iceberg decomposition : a parsimonious way tomap the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
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Entry regulation and competition : evidence from retail and labor markets of pharmacists
Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Unsorg, Maximiliane - 2021
We examine a deregulation of German pharmacists to assess its effects on retail and labor markets. From 2004 onward … higher labor demand. Our empirical analysis uses very rich information from the administrative panel data on the universe of …
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What shifts did Covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?
Baert, Stijn - 2021
This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...
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The future of work in developing economies : what can we learn from the South?
Egana del Sol, Pablo - 2020
at a large scale. Numerous studies have begun to investigate automation's impact on labor markets, although all have …-calibrate the effect of automation on labor market while analyzing the task structure across countries. Modeling off previous …
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What do employers' associations do?
Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
While trade unions have been studied in detail, there is virtually no economics research on employer associations (EAs), trade unions' counterparts in many countries. However, besides conducting collective bargaining, EAs perform several other activities that can in uence economic outcomes,...
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Hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths are ineffective in a tight labor market
Dejemeppe, Muriel; Delpierre, Matthieu; Pourtois, Mathilde - 2024
enhance the jobfinding rate of the target group. We attribute the lack of effect to the pre-pandemic tightening of the labor …
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