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How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World?
Kugler, Maurice; Viollaz, Mariana; Duque, Daniel; … - 2021
This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set of high-frequency phone surveys conducted by the World Bank and National Statistics Offices...
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Labor Markets during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Preliminary View
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …
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Labor Markets during the Covid-19 Crisis: A Preliminary View
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208003
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Combining Survey and Geospatial Data Can Significantly Improve Gender-Disaggregated Estimates of Labor Market Outcomes
Merfeld, Joshua D.; Newhouse, David; Weber, Michael; … - 2022
OpenStreetMap can significantly improve estimates of labor force participation and unemployment rates. Incorporating geospatial … information substantially increases the accuracy of male and female labor force participation and unemployment rates at the state … unemployment. Small area estimation using a nested error conditional random effect model also greatly improves municipal estimates …
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Für ein Viertel der älteren Beschäftigten in Sachsen könnte bald der Nachwuchs fehlen
Bauer, David; Sonnenburg, Julia; Weber, Michael - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 25 (2018) 03, pp. 3-8
In Sachsen könnte bis zum Jahr 2030 für jeden vierten älteren Beschäftigten passend ausgebildeter Nachwuchs fehlen. Dies ergeben Berechnungen des ifo Instituts für das Sächsische Staatsministerium der Finanzen. Demnach dürften Akademikerstellen schwieriger nachzubesetzen sein als Stellen,...
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Jobcenter: Optionskommunen vermitteln Arbeitslose seltener in Beschäftigung
Mergele, Lukas; Weber, Michael; Weber, Michael - In: ifo Schnelldienst 73 (2020) 02, pp. 39-44
Die Jobcenter in Deutschland werden entweder als "gemeinsame Einrichtungen" von Kommunen und der lokalen Agentur für Arbeit oder in "Optionskommunen" allein von den Kommunen geführt. Die Umwandlung von 41 gemeinsamen Einrichtungen in Optionskommunen im Jahr 2012 erlaubt es, den Erfolg der...
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Political Polarization and Expected Economic Outcomes
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
We use a large-scale representative survey of households from October 19-21 that elicits respondents' expectations about the presidential election's outcome as well as their economic expectations to document several new facts. First, people disagree strongly about the likely outcome of the...
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Manpower Constraints and Corporate Policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2020
Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer. For a panel of German firms, we show manpower-constrained firms have higher capacity utilization and longer backlog of orders (measured in months). They are more...
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Wage Determination and Employment Adjustment in Croatia
Weber, Michael - In: CESifo Forum 17 (2016) 1, pp. 22-26
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Manpower Constraints and Corporate Policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2017
Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712622