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forces which may ultimately promote gender equality in the labor market. First, businesses are rapidly adopting flexible work … work and child care …
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Policymakers, faced with different options for replacing lost earnings, have had limited evidence to inform their decisions. The current economic crisis has highlighted the need for data that are local and timely so that different fiscal policy options on local economies can be more immediately...
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This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
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We conduct a randomized evaluation of two job-search support programs for urban youth in Ethiopia. One group of treated … workshop where their skills are certified and they are given orientation on how to make effective job applications. The two … rich high-frequency data from a phone survey, we are able to explore the mechanisms underlying the results; we show that …
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On the basis of a country*industry unbalanced panel data sample for 14 OECD countries and 18 industries covering the years 1988 to 2007, this study proposes an econometric investigation of the effects of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) indicator on capital intensity for four...
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The economic crisis associated with the emergence of the novel corona virus is unlike standard recessions. Demand for workers in high contact and inflexible service occupations has declined, while parental supply of labor has been reduced by lack of access to reliable child care and in-person...
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labor force participation rate did not plummet. The ability to balance caregiving and work differed greatly by education … did not exit the labor force in large numbers, and they did not greatly decrease their hours of work. The aggregate female …, occupation, and race. The more educated could work from home. Those who began the period employed in various in-person “service …
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within the traditional Mincerian model that implies that wage growth falls if a recession reduces the growth of work … experience. Using a modified form of that model, we estimate the impact of recession-induced loss of work experience on wages on … increase negative wage impacts by 50 percent. An increase in part-year work projected to occur during the pandemic increases …
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the US, Sweden and other countries. Using ISSP and World Values Survey data we show that countries in which men perform … positively correlated across high income countries. The trend in men's household work suggests that the low fertility countries …
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Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we …
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