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Who's hit hardest? : the persistence of the employment shock by the COVID-19 crisis
Han, Joseph - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 43 (2021) 2, pp. 23-51
The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it … results show that while face-to-face services were undoubtedly hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis, the sectoral shock was less … suggest that targeted measures to mitigate the persistent effects of the employment shock should take priority during the …
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Who’s Hit Hardest? The Persistence of the Employment Shock by the COVID-19 Crisis
Han, Joseph - 2021
The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it … results show that while face-to-face services were undoubtedly hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis, the sectoral shock was less … suggest that targeted measures to mitigate the persistent effects of the employment shock should take priority during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221124
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Heterogeneous impacts of commodity price shocks on labour market outcomes : evidence and theory for the Chilean mining sector
Valenzuela, José - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 33 (2024), pp. 1-48
principal parameters that determine how the commodity shock is going to affect labour market outcomes between high and low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014636659
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Opening clauses in collective bargaining agreements : more flexibility to save jobs?
Brändle, Tobias; Heinbach, Wolf Dieter - 2010
Collective bargaining agreements have been said to decrease deployment since the work of Calmfors and Driffill (1988). We investigate empirically whether opening clauses, flexible elements that have been introduced to reduce the decline in coverage, can indeed minimise this effect and increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747561
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Opening Clauses in Collective Bargaining Agreements : More Flexibility to Save Jobs?
Brändle, Tobias - 2014
This paper analyses the impact of opening clauses in German collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) on job flows. Opening clauses should provide firms with more flexibility in economic crises. Therefore, firms operating under a CBA with opening clauses are expected to have lower job turnover, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066355
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A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation
Dolado, Juan Jose; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2007
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051630
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Labor and Product Market Reforms in Morocco
Sarr, Babacar - 2019
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects and sequencing of (LMRs) and product (PMRs) market reforms in Morocco. It finds that introducing LMRs and PMRs simultaneously would add about 2.5 percentage points (pp) of GDP growth and reduce unemployment by about 2.2 pp after five years. If...
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IT Induced Employment Irregularities and Deskilling : Impacts on Temporary Worker Welfare
Mishra, Abhay - 2020
Temporary and part-time workers constitute an important and increasing segment of the workforce in the United States. In this theoretical paper, we examine the impact of IT-induced employment irregularities and deskilling on physical and mental health and economic well-being of such workers. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843343
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Chutes and ladders? : job opportunities for generation COVID
Barth, Erling; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Schøne, Pål; … - 2021
With a focus on jobs for youth, this paper analyses the development of job postings in Norway during the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Jobs for youth are defined by the top 20 3-digit occupations for young workers. Job postings in these occupations took a larger hit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588682
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Labor market effects of migration-related supply shocks : evidence from internally displaced populations in Colombia
Calderón, Valentina; Ibáñez, Ana María - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926186