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labour demand, the expected final employment effects will be less pronounced, but still positive. …
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Remote wage employment gradually increased in the United States during the four decades prior to the pandemic, then …
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This paper examines fertility and labor supply responses to a French policy reform that consisted in conditioning the amount of child allowances on household income. Relying on Regression Discontinuity Design and administrative income data, the paper finds that restricting family allowance...
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A small but significant literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, although the impact of mass-shooting has not yet been addressed by economists. We compare the economic effects of two tragedies: the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing and the 2012 Sandy Hook School Shooting. Fatal...
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out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … households, we examine the employment impact of microcredit program in Bangladesh during 1998-2004. The longitudinal nature of … data allows us fixed effects estimation of the effect of microcredit program participation on self-employment hours and …
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We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with WFH being more prevalent among women than among men....
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Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … family and female employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …
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The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and governmental responses, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...
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employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration decisions, we instrument for oil and gas production in workers …’ state of residence via the predicted percent of oil and gas employment in their state of birth. We find statistically …
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