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This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … industries, import competition actually strengthens employment growth. In addition, import competition tends to improve average …
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forward. Using the U.S. monthly Current Population Survey data, this paper analyzes differences in employment responses … during the first nine months of the crisis.The loss of employment of women with young children due to the burden of … additional childcare is estimated to account for 45 percent of the increase in the employment gender gap, and to reduce total …
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The employment impact of environmental policies is an important question for policy makers. We examine the effect of … reallocation of employment. Moreover, tightening EPS during economic contractions appears to have a positive effect on employment …, other things equal. Quantifications exercises show modest positive net changes in employment for market-based policies, and …
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We evaluate the direct employment effect of the public investment in key infrastructure-electricity, roads, schools and … employment effect. Overall, we estimate that one percent of global GDP in public investment can create more than seven million … jobs worldwide through its direct employment effects alone …
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Early evidence on the pandemic's effects pointed to women's employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to … to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women's than men's employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19's … related to COVID-19's impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …
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We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …
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Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We give an answer to … this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 … would, on average, lift female employment by 1 percent, while increasing male employment by 0.6 percent. Consequently such a …
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Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...
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Since the global financial crisis, sector-level bargaining has come under renewed scrutiny. While in Southern Europe, the crisis raised concerns about the role of collective bargaining as an obstacle to labor market adjustment, in Northern Europe it was perceived more favourably and, according...
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.S. manufacturing industry, and it finds evidence of asymmetry. Tight policy increases job destruction and reduces net employment …
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