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The path through : early COVID-19 job loss and labour market trajectories in Austria

Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2024

the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …

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The labor market worsening effects of a resource bust : evidence from the crude oil price shock in Ecuador

Parra-Cely, Sergio; Zanoni López, Wladimir - 2022

To assess the effects of an oil price bust on individual labor market outcomes, we leverage the 2015 exogenous decline in international oil prices with geographical variation in oil-dependency in Ecuador. To account for propagation mechanisms, we also test the causal effect of the oil price bust...

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Moral costs, the informal sector and unemployment

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001

, sector division, unemployment and welfare. …

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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle

Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

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The macroeconomic effects of a carbon tax to meet the U.S. Paris Agreement target: the role of firm creation and technology adoption

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2021

externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of … consumption and output; a marginal increase in the unemployment and labor force participation rates; and an expansion in the … accompanied by gradual gains in output and consumption and a negligible expansion in unemployment. Critically, abstracting from …

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Structural change, income distribution and unemployment related to Covid-19 : an agent-based model

Schütz, Bernhard; Reiter, Oliver; Landesmann, Michael; … - 2023

We study the distributional consequences of COVID-19 by using a stock-flow consistent agent-based model that captures some of the aspects of pandemic-related lockdowns. In particular, the model distinguishes between "essential" and "non-essential" industries, between jobs that can be done from...

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The impact of business support services for small and medium enterprises on firm performance in low- and middle-income countries : a meta-analysis

Cravo, Túlio; Piza, Caio - 2016

Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are popular among policy makers, given the role SMEs play in job creation around the world. Business support interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often based on the assumption that market failures and...

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Gender gaps in employment, wages, and work hours : assessment of COVID-19 implications

Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has highly asymmetric effects on labour market outcomes of men and women. In this paper, we empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we...

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Employment cyclicality by firm size, wage, and productivity in Brazil

Cravo, Túlio; Jacinto, Paulo de Andrade; Schimanski, … - 2018 - Version: August 27th, 2018

firms are more cyclically sensitive to unemployment. Besides, the VAR impulse response analysis suggests that workers move …

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A rapid road to employment? : the impacts of a bus rapid transit system in Lima

Scholl, Lynn; Martinez, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; … - 2018

Despite the growing interest in and proliferation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems around the world, their causal impacts on labor market outcomes remain unexplored. Reduced travel times for those who live near BRT stations or near feeder lines, may increase access to a wider array of job...

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