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Optimal Design and Quantitative Evaluation of the Minimum Wage
Mahone, Zachary L. - 2017
minimum wage is procyclical, dampening the response of unemployment to aggregate shocks …
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COVID-19 and Labour Law : Argentina. Update 2 July 2020
Chiuffo, Facundo Martin - 2020
Argentina has had a profound regulatory activity to counteract the coronavirus pandemic so far and its consequences, which appear to worsen as time goes by. Based on the experience of other countries, a strict lockdown was put into place at an early stage, which has been opening up slowly but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095230
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Macroeconomic Implications of Changes in Social Security Rules
Bagis, Bilal - 2018
The Turkish social insurance system has been feverishly debated for years, particularly through its burden on the economy. The most recent reform is an attempt to neutralize the deterioration within the social security system and its effects on the economy. After the recent reform, ‘the way...
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Macroeconomic effects of UI extensions at short and long durations
Acosta, Miguel; Müller, Andreas; Nakamura, Emi; Jón … - 2023
We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452576
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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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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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Labor market reform options to boost employment in South Africa
Duval, Romain; Ji, Yi; Shibata, Ippei - 2021
Raising South Africa's low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP per capita by 50 to 60 percent and reduce income inequality dramatically in the long term. By putting further strain on an already fragile labor market, Covid-19 has raised the...
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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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Shortening the potential duration of unemployment benefits and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment in Germany
Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2017
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