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This paper analyzes a context where sustained violence happens in non-war zones. Specifically, this paper considers terrorist attacks in Pakistan and focuses on districts which were never an active war zone, but still suffered from intermittent terrorist attacks of varying intensity. We provide...
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India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India, economic shocks are expected to have disparate...
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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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Many countries in Africa suffer high rates of underemployment or low rates of productive employment; many also anticipate large numbers of people to enter the workforce in the near future. This paper asks the question: Are African firms creating fewer jobs than those located elsewhere? And, if...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325308
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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other industrial sectors, in agriculture, and in services, as well as unemployment and non-participation in the labor force …
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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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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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