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Ex-ante evaluation of the impact of increases in minimum wages on labor market outcomes in Kosovo

Robayo-Abril, Monica; Terskaya, Anastasia; Brodmann, … - 2020

increase to 250 euros per month, the simulated unemployment rate increases by 0.4 percentage point in the short term and about … 0.6 percentage point in the long term. The youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) is anticipated to increase by up to 1 ….1 percentage points in this scenario, a relatively large increase considering the already high levels of unemployment among this …

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Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union

Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020

This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and health risks created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using various measures of occupational risks, it first shows that immigrant workers, especially those coming from lower-income...

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Exporting and female labor market outcomes in Georgia

Hollweg, Claire H.; Lopez, Anne Beline Ong - 2020

Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the share of exports in total sales, to explore whether changes in the structure of sales (exporting versus selling to the domestic market) matter for labor market outcomes. The...

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