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Why should we integrate income and employment support? : a conceptual and empirical investigation

Asenjo, Antonia; Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah - 2022

The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and …

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The impact of extreme weather on temporary work absence

Spencer, Nekeisha; Urquhart, Mikhail-Ann - 2021

The study examines the impact that extreme weather has on temporary work absence in Jamaica, a central concern given the country’s negative experience with such events. The study uses quarterly data containing key labour market indicators on an unbalanced panel of individuals along with...

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Hurricanes and their implications for unemployment : evidence from the Caribbean

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric - 2021

literature studying their impacts. The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of hurricane strikes on unemployment across … a sample of Caribbean countries. In breaking down the unemployment data, our findings demonstrate that there is very … literature studying their impacts. The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of hurricane strikes on unemployment across …

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(Un)employment and skillsformation in Chile : an explorationof the effects of training in labourmarket transitions

Bogliaccini, Juan A.; Madariaga, Aldo; Rojas Peralta, Miski - 2022

highlighted the crucial role of labour market policies and institutions, particularly but not exclusively re-training and skills … the transitions from unemployment to employment and between different types of employment. Using individual-level panel … attending training courses while unemployed on individuals' yearly ratio of unemployment. In addition to this, we explore …

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COVID-19, jobs and the future of work in the LDCs : a (disheartening) preliminary account

Parisotto, Aurelio; Elsheikhi, Adam - 2020

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of the COVID-19-induced health and labour market crises in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), drawing on a large set of available data and sources. It highlights how the outbreak is affecting jobs and incomes via multiple channels of...

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Does economic growth deliver jobs? : revisiting Okun's Law

Lee, Sangheon; Schmidt-Klau, Dorothea; Weiss, Johannes; … - 2020

with the responsiveness of unemployment to business cycles: In developed economies, there are large variations in sectoral …

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A global analysis of worker protest in digital labour platforms

Bessa, Ioulia; Joyce, Simon; Neumann, Denis; Stuart, Mark; … - 2022

This paper presents findings from the Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest, a database of platform worker protest events around the world which gathers data from online news media reports and other online sources. For the period January 2017 to July 2020, we identified 1,271 instances of...

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Growth, economic structure and informality

Chacaltana, Juan; Bonnet, Florence; García Carpio, … - 2022

This paper explores the relationship between economic growth and informality and highlights the role of GDP growth and its composition in the level and evolution of informality, using country data from 1991 to 2019. The analysis reveals a weak relationship, although with important differences...

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Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high

Liepmann, Hannah; Pignatti, Clemente - 2021

We analyze for the first time the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) in a context of high informality …

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Estimating labour market transitions from labour force surveys : the case of Viet Nam

Samaniego de la Parra, Brenda; Viegelahn, Christian - 2021

policy discussions surrounding the future of work. Transitions occur between employment, unemployment and inactivity, but …

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