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There is a concern among social scientists and policymakers that the COVID-19 crisis might permanently change the nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during the pandemic by web scraping job ads from a leading job search website. As in the U.S., the number of...
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Early evidence on the pandemic’s effects pointed to women’s employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to … to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s … related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …
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create the most jobs and are the primary source of employment growth. Using the methods of ordinary least squares and … Feasible generalized least squares, findings reveal that the relationship between firm dynamics and employment growth varies … systematically across firm size and age. The results show that, although large firms appear to drive employment growth, this growth …
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The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro …&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard estimation … innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when R&D intensity is …
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The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro … the R&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard …: increasing innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when the R …
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We provide a novel evidence about the innovation-employment nexus by decomposing it by R&D intensity in a continuous … relationship between the R&D-driven innovation and firm employment as well as address important econometric issues, which is not … innovation and employment entails important non-linearities responsible for significant differences in employment response to …
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on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … higher degree of flexibility in weekly hours. The 2012 reform is found to preserve employment and generate a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …
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-in-difference estimation reveals no significant employment effects of the minimum wage introduction. We test for alternative adjustment …
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Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary...
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This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period … movement. Little of the observed heterogeneity in the plant-level employment outcome can be explained by easily observable …. Furthermore, the role for idiosyncrasies in explaining the plant-level employment outcome becomes increasingly important in times …
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