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Labor market effects of a work-first policy for refugees
Nielson Arendt, Jacob - 2020
integration of refugees. The policy added new requirements for refugees to actively search for jobs and to participate in on …
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Firm closures and labor market policies in Europe : evidence from retrospective longitudinal data
Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Voucharas, Georgios - 2023
We examine the impact of active and passive labor market policies expenditures on the probability of re-employment, re-employment duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use retrospective homogeneous longitudinal data...
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Estimating poverty for refugee populations : can cross-survey imputation methods substitute for data scarcity?
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Verme, Paolo - 2019
-survey imputations and administrative and survey data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan. Employing … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … a small number of predictors currently available in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration …
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Refugee migration, labor demand,and local employment
Auer, Daniel; Götz, Lilia - 2021
recent refugees in Germany who are exogenously allocated to districts and largely excluded from the labor market. Using panel … the local unemployment rate when more refugees arrive. The dynamic panel data estimates are robust to various sensitivity …
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Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman - 2019
In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known about the policies that foster or hamper...
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Which occupations do jobseekers and firms look for? : evidence from three public employment services
Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
This study proposes and applies a new methodology to analyse firms' and workers' occupational preferences. We use microdata covering all 2014-2018 vacancy and jobseeker registrations from the Public Employment Services of Belgium, Morocco, and South Korea. We find that a small number of...
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Germany's labour market in Coronavirus distress : new challenges to safeguarding employment
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - 2021
We analyse measures of internal flexibility taken to safeguard employment during the Coronavirus Crisis in comparison to the Great Recession. Cyclical working-time reductions are again a major factor in safeguarding employment. Whereas during the Great Recession all working-time instruments...
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Public procurement and supplier job creation : insights from auctions
Srhoj, Stjepan; Dragojević, Melko - 2021 - This draft October 4, 2021
Public procurement contracts (PPCs) of goods, services and works is about one tenth of global gross domestic product. Much research has been conducted on government spending and its aggregate effects, but evidence is scarce at the micro-level. This study exploits sealed-bid PPC auctions of...
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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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Did a successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic come at a cost? : impacts of the outbreak on employment outcomes in Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low mortality rate of 35 deaths to date (out of a population of approximately 100 million) and currently has no community transmission. We offer the first study that examines the...
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