Showing 1 - 10 of 27,256
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655504
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013384487
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486363
May of 2020. We document large employment losses during the lockdown, especially in "quarantined" sectors and non …-essential sectors that do not allow for remote work. Employment losses were mostly temporary, and hit lower-educated workers … work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243435
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315800
In Asia, aging countries with slow population growth worry about a lack of workers in the future and see older people's labor as a potential solution. However, this leaves out the work that many older people already do-unpaid care work. Drawing on data from Bangladesh, India, Mongolia, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312916
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166659
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591083
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426509
This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct … consistent time series from 1988:Q1 to 2019:Q4 using employment surveys, and estimate a model of labor participation in the … formal market and wages for each gender and quarter, correcting selection biases. Based on these results, we implement a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357323