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Impact of COVID-19 crisis on rural youth : evidence from a panel survey and an experiment

Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Imbert, Clément - 2021

This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...

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Informality, education-occupation mismatch, and wages : evidence from India

Bahl, Shweta; Sharma, Ajay - 2023

This article examines the intertwining relationship between informality and education-occupation mismatch (EOM) and the … consequent impact on the workers' wages. In particular, we discuss two issues - first, the relative importance of informality and … analysis reveals that although both informality and EOM are significant determinants of wages, the former is more crucial for a …

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Economic shocks and crime : evidence from the Brazilian trade liberalization

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2017

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in...

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Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020

Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employeremployee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...

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Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020

Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employer-employee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233550

Innovation and self-employment

Ciarli, Tommaso; Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Savona, Maria - 2020

The paper adds to the literature on innovation and employment by looking at the relationship between R&D investments and the rise of alternative work arrangements, particularly selfemployment (SE). A literature review on the determinants of the emergence of non-standard work, alternative work...

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Challenged by migration : Europe's options

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the existence of the EU. Against all measures of success, the current public debate seems to suggest that the political consensus that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes...

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Unemploymentand health : a panel event study

Raftopoulou, Athina; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2021

Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the variation in the timing of entering unemployment using longitudinal data for Greece. We find, that in the periods ahead of an unemployment event, health outcomes decline and unmet...

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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 Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown : first order effects on gender gaps in employment and domestic time use in India

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2020

Based on national-level panel data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)'s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered pattern of time allocation inside the home. Examining...

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