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employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment …
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COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
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This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the … employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased …' employment. Further, mothers who left or lost their jobs appear to have dropped out of the labor force even several months after …
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This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self …-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups … effects on employment and hours …
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, we investigate the probability of female employment during the lockdown period between March and May 2020. Based on …
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data is useful for analysing the consequences for gender equality in employment. Since the demand for labour is a derived … for many firms, This creates a loss of liquidity which, in turn, has caused some firms to reduce employment, working hours …, employment, the share of females in employment and firm expectations of survival). A limitation of such analysis with any …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
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and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …
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are used to investigate this relationship. Findings point out to strong state dependence in employment choices. Further …, the impact of disability on employment outcomes is highly significant. Model simulations suggest that high cross and own … state dependence can amplify a one-off disability shock to alter the probability of full time employment and …
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the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …-sensitive employment outcomes than college-educated natives …
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