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COVID-19 and employment in South Korea: trends and comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis
Nam, Minhyuk; Lee, Soohyung - 2021
decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …
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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …
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How do labor markets affect crime? New evidence on an old puzzle
Mustard, David B. - 2010
For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269828
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How do labor markets affect crime? : new evidence on an old puzzle
Mustard, David B. - 2010
property crime. -- Crime ; labor markets ; unemployment ; wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948924
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Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Employment : Evidence from the Post-Welfare Reform Era
Neumark, David - 2007
We study the effects of minimum wages and the EITC in the post-welfare reform era. For the minimum wage, the evidence points to disemployment effects that are concentrated among young minority men. For young women, there is little evidence that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception...
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The distributional impacts of early employment losses from COVID-19 : [running head: employment losses from COVID-19]
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221840
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Faces of joblessness in Australia : an anatomy of employment barriers using household data
Immervoll, Herwig; Pacifico, Daniele; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019
Australia's economy and labour market have escaped a dramatic downturn following the global financial economic crisis. Yet, a substantial share of working-age Australians either were not working or worked only to a limited extent as the global recovery gathered pace between 2013 and 2014. 18%...
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The macroeconomics of automation : data, theory, and policy analysis
Jaimovich, Nir; Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Siu, Henry E.; … - 2020
The U.S. economy has experienced a significant drop in the fraction of the population employed in middle wage, "routine task-intensive" occupations. Applying machine learning techniques, we identify characteristics of those who used to be employed in such occupations and show they are now less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165673
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Strategic unemployment
Angerhausen, Julia; Bayer, Christian; Hehenkamp, Burkhard - 2006
low wages to this individual unemployment to signal a high reservation wage. -- strategic unemployment ; asymmetric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892041
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Minimum wage, trade and unemployment in general equilibrium
Marjit, Sugata; Ganguly, Shrimoyee; Acharyya, Rajat - 2020
The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production...
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