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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK

Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022

suggests that increased inactivity among older workers, the so called She-cession (particularly in the US) and shifting worker …

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The Distributional Impact of Recessions : The Global Financial Crisis and the Pandemic Recession

Shibata, Ippei - 2020

Using the U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the Pandemic Crisis and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where individuals interact to consume goods), 'teleworkable'...

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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil

Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...

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Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity

Babina, Tania; Barkai, Simcha; Jeffers, Jessica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We hand-collect and standardize information describing all 3,055 antitrust lawsuits brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) between 1971 and 2018. Using restricted establishment-level microdata from the U.S. Census, we compare the economic outcomes of a non-tradable industry in states...

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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Recalls, Retirements, and Reallocation in the COVID Recovery

Forsythe, Eliza; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian; Wiczer, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

At the onset of the COVID pandemic, the U.S. economy suddenly and swiftly lost 20 million jobs. Over the next two years, the economy has been on the recovery path. We assess the labor market two years into the COVID crisis. We show that early employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by...

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Spending and Job-Finding Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits : Evidence from Administrative Micro Data

Ganong, Peter; Greig, Fiona E.; Noel, Pascal J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

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Evaluating Unemployment Policies : What Do the Underlying Theories Tell Us?

Snower, Dennis J. - 2006

The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy …--on the theories` ability to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behavior. The paper considers four types …

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What are the Economic Effects of Pandemic Containment Policies? Evidence from Sweden

Bricco, Jana Gieck; Misch, Florian; Solovyeva, Alexandra - 2021

This paper examines the economic effects of policies to contain Covid-19, by extracting lessons from Sweden's experience during the ‘Great Lockdown'. Sweden's approach was less stringent and based more on social responsibility than legal obligations compared to European peers. First, we...

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Storm Clouds Ahead? Migration and Labor Force Participation Rates in Europe

Hilgenstock, Benjamin - 2018

The paper examines the potential effects of international migration on labor force participation in advanced economies in Europe. It documents that migration played a significant role in alleviating aging pressures on labor supply by affecting the age composition of receiving countries'...

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Minimum Wage Effects Within Census Based Statistical Areas : A Matched Pair Cross-Border Analysis

Taylor, Garrett C.; West, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using monthly data from major U.S. metropolitan areas that span state borders, we estimate the elasticity of employment with respect to the minimum wage using a difference-in-differences design with continuous treatment in two-digit industries of 71 (Arts, Entertainment and Recreation) and 72...

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