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detrimental medium-term effects on output, unemployment, poverty, and inequality. However, policies can go a long way toward … relatively greater fiscal support. The increases in unemployment, poverty, and inequality are likewise lower for countries with …
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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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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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unemployment and debt. The paper illustrates in a downside scenario, how low potential growth and crisis legacies leave the euro …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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In this paper, we provide compelling evidence that cyclical factors account for the bulk of the post-2007 decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate. We then proceed to formulate a stylized New Keynesian model in which labor force participation is essentially acyclical during “normal...
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that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to …
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