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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-38
The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or...
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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
Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
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Impact of COVID-19 crisis on rural youth : evidence from a panel survey and an experiment
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Imbert, Clément - 2021
This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...
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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
Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978325
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Offshoring and labor markets
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452576
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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David L. - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997459
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Analyse der Beweggründe, der Ursachen und der Auswirkungen des so genannten Offshoring auf Arbeitsplätze und Wirtschaftsstruktur in Deutschland
Buch, Claudia M.; Schnitzer, Monika; Arndt, Christian; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003525519
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Does extending unemployment benefits improve job quality?
Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - 2015
Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. A search model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517037
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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Nekoei, Arash - 2015
Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. A search model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023002