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empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic … experienced a major decline in their employment rate and workhours, as well as gender segregation in the most affected industries …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all …
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that mobility restrictions significantly decreased employment rates (−22.5%) and hourly wages (−74.1%) for workers in …Mobility restrictions have the potential to accelerate automation. Using difference-indifferences and triple …-differences empirical strategies, and leveraging cross-industry variation in mobility restrictions and within-industry variations in …
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might affect employment in different ways. A policy shift toward a low-carbon green economy may create new and additional … crowding out of employment in other sectors. In addition, energy prices may increase owing to feed-in tariffs subsidizing …
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The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed … these changes in minimum wages affect employment, considering the effect both on employment within plants and on exit of … plants. Our results show no evidence of an effect of minimum wages on employment in Indonesian plants. One explanation found …
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industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age, and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in …
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common working conditions within the industry, limit wage inequality, and reduce gender wage gaps. However, several studies … suggest that those benefits come at the cost of reduced employment levels, especially during recessions. The income losses of …
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period in Uruguay. Using social security administrative records, we focus on the gender-differentiated patterns of labor … unemployment insurance (UI) as an instrument for employment protection during the pandemic-induced recession. The analysis reveals … that womenparticularly those with children and earning low wagesexperienced greater employment and wage losses compared to …
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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potentially green industries outperform the others in terms of employment, average wages, value added and productivity, net of … implies an increase in employment and value added. In contrast, average wages and labour productivity remain unchanged. These …
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This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …
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