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document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment …COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
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employees who are under a dual condition of stress; namely, the pandemic and the risk of job loss. The hypothesis of employment …, to participate in training measures for: a similar job, remote working, and self-employment. Findings from a seemingly …
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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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duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use …We examine the impact of active and passive labor market policies expenditures on the probability of re-employment, re-employment … contrast to passive labor market policies, investing in active labor market policies increases the re-employment probability …
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that, everything else being equal, wages and employment conditions (i.e. full time contracts and contracts with guaranteed … for unobserved heterogeneity. Our findings show that improving pay and employment conditions for care staff employed by … leave was strongly associated with employment in publicly owned care establishments, most likely due to the relatively more …
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not endorse 'quiet quitting'-the act of fulfilling only the minimum requirements to maintain employment. Conversely …
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We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation … 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit eligibility is attained, which persists for about 16 weeks. These …
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loss, particularly part-time working wives shifting to full-time employment. Finally, displaced husbands are increasingly …
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Official statistics indicated a break in Okun's law in all the Spanish regions due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, herein, evidence of the validity of the law is shown. The temporary layoff procedures (ERTE) allowed many workers to maintain their jobs. From the productive point of view, the...
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During the last decade, unemployment in Greece climbed up to 28%, almost quadrupling due to the economic crisis that … hit Greece. In the present paper, we examine the determinants of the unemployment dynamics and the impact of the minimum … wage on the probability of making a transition into and out of unemployment. We use micro-level data from the Greek Labour …
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