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Determinants of social distancing and economic activity during COVID-19 : a global view
Maloney, William F.; Taskin, Temel - 2020
The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
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The labor market impact of mobility restrictions : evidence from the West Bank
Cali, Massimiliano; Miaari, Sami H. - 2013
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Shoring up economic refugees : Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020
Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap by analyzing a new...
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Migration and jobs : issues for the 21st century
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Gonzalez, Alvaro; Robalino … - 2019
. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration … internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate … the flow of migrants and minimize irregular migration …
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International migration and household well-being : evidence from Uzbekistan
Seitz, William - 2019
As one of the most pivotal ways that labor markets adjust to changing economic conditions, international migration is … international migration trends and household well-being using a combination of administrative records and unique panel survey data …-invariant respondent and location characteristics. The findings show that weak local labor markets drive labor migration from Uzbekistan …
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Tracing the local impacts of exports on poverty and inequality in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Vazquez, Emmanuel; … - 2020
experienced an increase in labor force participation and attracted more net migration, particularly of unskilled workers …
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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008 - 2009 crisis
Haddad, Mona; Harrison, Ann E.; Hausman, Catherine - 2011
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Developing countries and monitoring WTO commitments in response to the global economic crisis
Bown, Chad P. - 2010
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Trade crisis and recovery : restructuring of global value chains
Milberg, William S.; Winkler, Deborah - 2010
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Global recessions
Kose, M. Ayhan; Sugawara, Naotaka; Terrones, Marco E. - 2020
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009. During each of these episodes, annual real per capita global gross domestic product contracted, and this contraction was accompanied by weakening of other key indicators of global...
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