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This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of … import exposure on manufacturing employment at the industry level. Our estimates indicate that the sanctions led to an … overall decline in the manufacturing employment growth rate by 16.4 percentage points. However, we uncover significant …
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The COVID-19 outbreak has brought unprecedented disruptions to the global economies and has led to income loss and high unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings, and job loss in a multi-country setting. We...
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Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered … pattern of time allocation inside the home. Examining the employment status during the last 12 months of over 40 …,000 individuals surveyed in April 2020 (i.e. during the strict nationwide lockdown), the paper finds that overall employment, which …
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We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit …
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This paper investigates impact of e-economic activities on female employment rates in Turkey over 1994–2016. The … analysis unveils three major findings. First, 80.74% of variations in female employment are accounted by e-commerce and control … variables. Second, Autoregressive Distributed Lag analysis documents that these series (female employment, e-commerce and …
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mostly on firms. Second, I provide compelling evidence of long-lasting growth in female employment and a drop in the average … non-employment duration of women entering unemployment insurance after the reform. Third, despite the time-limited nature … that employer-borne payroll tax cuts are a successful strategy to promote female employment and business growth in contexts …
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that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …
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that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap. …
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-term employment stability among those who lost their jobs early in the pandemic in contrast to the group of the longer-term unemployed … disproportionate challenges during the pandemic. They were more inclined to transition into precarious employment arrangements and … experienced lower levels of employment stability in the months following re-employment. …
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female employment and spurs business performance, especially where gender biases are more severe. By contrast, the tax cut … to reduce the gender employment gap, but not the gender pay gap. …
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