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other industrial sectors, in agriculture, and in services, as well as unemployment and non-participation in the labor force …
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other industrial sectors, in agriculture, and in services, as well as unemployment and non-participation in the labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685011
in developing countries have multiple equilibria—the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income … increases unemployment rates. As corollaries, we show that (1) within the same society, two different racial groups that may be …
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Historically, the Spanish labor market has been quite unstable. The unexpected arrival of COVID-19 in 2020 has stressed these vulnerabilities. In this paper, we analyze the immediate impact of the pandemic on Spanish labor market outcomes. We find that, during the lockdown period, individuals...
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unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings …
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Russia is likely to witness robust but jobless recovery in the short term. Reforms aimed at modernizing public sector, strengthening financial sector, improving investment climate and diversifying the economy have become all the more important as a result of the crisis. The Russian economy is...
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workers’ labor market outcomes (i.e., unemployment, work absence, and lay off). Furthermore, according to the prior literature … example. Results show that: 1) The COVID-19 disaster leads to a larger increase in unemployment, work absence, and layoff for …
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This paper studies whether a minimum wage changes how labour markets respond to economic shocks. Using data from South Africa, we show that an agricultural minimum wage leads to higher mean wages with no significant impacts on mean employment. However, these positive aggregate outcomes hide...
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in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income … increases unemployment rates. As corollaries, we show that (1) within the same society, two different racial groups that may be …
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labor market. The co-existence of positive wage spans and unemployment is explained by wage rigidities that are …
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