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Who are the Essential and Frontline Workers?
Blau, Francine D.; Koebe, Josefine; Meyerhofer, Pamela - 2020
regardless of actual operation status of their industry. We then use data on the feasibility of work from home in the worker …
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COVID-19, Race, and Gender
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021
The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...
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Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India: Gender Inequality in Employment?
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022
gender and needs commensurate interventions. …
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COVID-19 and Mental Health Deterioration among BAME Groups in the UK
Proto, Eugenio; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
-COVID-19, and uncover four new facts. First, ethnicity predicts mental health deterioration when interacted with gender. Among …, among women, the deterioration in mental health is similar for both BAME and British White individuals. Second, the gender … BAME groups. The BAME group of Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani appears to be driving the difference in the gender gap in …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market
Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of...
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How Do We Think the COVID-19 Crisis Will Affect Our Careers (If Any Remain)?
Baert, Stijn; Lippens, Louis; Moens, Eline; Sterkens, … - 2020
members believe they will look at the labour market differently and will have different work-related priorities in the future … conditions and work-life balance since the COVID-19 crisis. …
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322506
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How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World?
Kugler, Maurice; Viollaz, Mariana; Duque, Daniel; … - 2021
urban workers stopped working. Gender gaps in work stoppage were particularly pronounced and stemmed mainly from differences … within sectors rather than differential employment patterns across sectors. Differences in work stoppage between urban and … rural workers were markedly smaller than those across gender, age, and education groups. Preliminary results from 10 …
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