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Labour market dynamics in Spanish regions: Evaluating asymmetries in troublesome times

Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 2/3, pp. 197-221

' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To … via changes in unemployment, labour market participation, and spatial mobility. Our results provide evidence of asymmetric … adjustment mechanism in expansion, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide …

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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in South Korea: Estimates and Implications for Public Pension Policies

Kim, Dohyung - In: KDI Journal of Economic Policy 41 (2019) 2, pp. 41-58

Health capacity to work for the elderly is an essential piece of information for designing social policies in an aging society. Here, we assess the health capacity to work of older men in South Korea and provide a cross-country comparison. Following the methodology proposed by Milligan and Wise...

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The child penalty: Evidence from Spain

de Quinto, Alicia; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606

Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers'...

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Adopting Local Languages as Official Languages: Effect on Women and Rural Individuals' Labor Force in Burkina Faso

Yameogo, Souleymane - In: KDI Journal of Economic Policy 42 (2020) 2, pp. 31-56

This study investigates the impact of the use of the main local languages in Burkina Faso (Moore, Dioula, Fulfulde) on labor force participation. Using Ethnologue language data, I compute the relative language distance reduction index, after which I use a probit/logit model and instrumental...

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