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How did the COVID-19 crisis affect different types of workers in the developing world?

Kugler, Maurice; Viollaz, Mariana; Duque, Daniel; … - 2021

This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set of high-frequency phone surveys conducted by the World Bank and National Statistics Offices...

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Implications of labor supply specifications in CGE models : a demonstration for employment of Palestinian labor in Israel and its impact on the West Bank economy

Agbahey, Johanes; Siddig, Khalid; Grethe, Harald - 2020

Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...

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Life-cycle worker flows and cross-country differences in aggregate employment

Créchet, Jonathan; Lalé, Etienne; Tarasonis, Linas - 2024

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …

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Labor Supply Shocks, Labor Force Entry, and Monetary Policy

Kurozumi, Takushi; Van Zandweghe, Willem - 2022

Should monetary policy offset the effects of labor supply shocks on inflation and the output gap? Canonical New Keynesian models answer yes. Motivated by weak labor force participation during the pandemic, we reexamine the question by introducing labor force entry and exit in an otherwise...

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The Impact of State Shutdown Policies on Unemployment During a Pandemic

Kong, Edward; Prinz, Daniel - 2020

-state unemployment in an event study framework. Exploiting the differential timing of the introduction of restaurant and bar limitations …, we analyze how Google searches for claiming unemployment insurance varied from day to day and across states. We describe … outcome of interest are limited. Using this method, we quantify the share of overall growth in unemployment during the COVID …

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Has the willingness to work fallen during the COVID pandemic?

Faberman, R. Jason; Müller, Andreas; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2022

the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …

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No role for the Hartz reforms? : demand and supply factors in the German labor market, 1993-2014

Burda, Michael C.; Seele, Stefanie - 2016

The supply and demand framework of Katz and Murphy (1992) provides new evidence on the source of changes in socially insured full-time and part-time employment in years preceding and following the implementation of the landmark Hartz reforms in Germany. Our findings are consistent with a stable...

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Employment to output elasticities & reforms towards flexicurity : evidence from OECD countries

Görg, Holger; Hornok, Cecília; Montagna, Catia; … - 2018

How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...

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Employment to output elasticities & reforms towards flexicurity : evidence from OECD countries

Görg, Holger; Hornok, Cecília; Montagna, Catia; … - 2018

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Increased labor market participation can't do the job of mastering Germany's demographic change in the future

Brenke, Karl; Clemens, Marius - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 33/35, pp. 325-334

In the last decade the available labor force has expanded in Germany-despite the decline in the working-age population. The reason: labor market participation has increased, for women in particular and older people in general. Also noticeable was a rise in qualification level because...

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