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The early effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market outcomes of natives and migrants in the UK
Morando, Greta - 2021
It has been found that migrants and natives are affected differently by fluctuations in the business cycle. This paper analyses whether this is the case when considering the most recent economic downturn triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. By using UK data, it finds that unemployment has...
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The Effect of Labor-Demand Shocks on Women’s Participation in the Labor Force : Evidence from Palestine
Fallah, Belal - 2019
Two interesting facts emerge from the Palestinian labor market. Educational attainment for women swiftly expanded … during the 1999-2011 period, but the labor force-participation rate (LFPR) for educated women stagnated …—and disproportionately so for young educated women. We investigated whether changes in labor demand contributed to women's sluggish labor …
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The Covid crisis : occupational impacts in EU economies and policy suggestions
Fischer, Georg; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
differentiated impacts on women and men. The major policy challenge is to avoid lasting gaps in overall employment as economies …
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The labor market effects of drug-related violence in a transit country
Ham, Andrés; Ruiz, Juanita - 2024
transit country workers and has greater effects on women than men. …
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Job creation during Korea's transition to a knowledge economy
Choi, Kyungsoo - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 44 (2022) 3, pp. 75-99
This paper analyzes job creation when the Korean economy transitioned to a knowledge economy from the 1990s to the 2010s. During this period, the ratio of service to manufacturing jobs increased, knowledge intensive industries grew, and job creation became geographically concentrated around...
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Gender effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Swiss labor market
Dubois, Corinne; Lambertini, Luisa; Wu, Yu - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-29
worsening of the unemployment gender gap during the pandemic, but we find that women were more likely to uptake short-time work …
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Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment : A Cross-Country Analysis
Addison, John T. - 2010
This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods to estimate minimum wage effects among teenagers and young adults. Apart from the longer time...
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Resident Versus Non-Resident Employment Impacts Associated with Marcellus Shale Development
Jaenicke, Edward C. - 2015
There is much debate surrounding the employment effect of shale gas development, especially as it relates to extraction counties. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many jobs are filled by non-resident workers. We examine the impact that shale gas development has had on local employment in...
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Gendered impact of COVID-19 pandemic on transitioning from university to labor market : evidence from Turkey
Demirel-Derebasoglu, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic led to unprecedented disruptions in the labor market. Turkey implemented a worker dismissal ban to mitigate the adverse effects, effective from April 2020 to June 2021. The pandemic and unveiled measures put pressure against recent university graduates' successful...
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The path through : early COVID-19 job loss and labour market trajectories in Austria
Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2024
-demographic cohorts - notably, women, parents with two or more young children, and individuals with lower levels of education - faced …
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