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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in Iran
Dang, Hai-Anh; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do, Minh N.N. - 2024
While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...
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Labor Markets during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Preliminary View
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million...
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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
This study is the first in the world to investigate the expected impact of the COVID-19 crisis on career outcomes and career aspirations. To this end, high-quality survey research with a relevant panel of Belgian employees was conducted. About 21% of them fear losing their jobs due to the...
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The Cost of the COVID-19 Crisis: Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
decline in employment in recent months as well as declines in consumer spending. While lockdowns have pronounced effects on …
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Firm-level Expectations and Behavior in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
Buchheim, Lukas; Dovern, Jonas; Krolage, Carla; Link, … - 2020
, expect more difficulties for their businesses going forward. Consequently, such firms are first to cut employment and …
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The Distributional Impacts of Early Employment Losses from COVID-19
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
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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Unemployment Paths in a Pandemic Economy
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Valletta, Robert G. - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds the path for measured unemployment, depending on the...
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COVID-19 Employment Status Impacts on Food Sector Workers
Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020
difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of … pandemic significantly reduced the probability of continued active employment for previous workers in both food manufacturing … market is a strong and significant factor. The employment changes are not just due to unemployment during facility closures …
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A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19
Brodeur, Abel; Gray, David M.; Islam, Anik; Bhuiyan, … - 2020
The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and government response, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...
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Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times: Evidence from UK Prolific Participants
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
age, ethnicity, education, family structure, income in 2019, current employment status, place of residence or living in …
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