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affects the specific health and employment outcomes of employed workers over a period of nine years. We exploit administrative … employment outcomes. …
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To assess the effects of an oil price bust on individual labor market outcomes, we leverage the 2015 exogenous decline in international oil prices with geographical variation in oil-dependency in Ecuador. To account for propagation mechanisms, we also test the causal effect of the oil price bust...
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Using Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data, after making appropriate adjustments, we estimate that employment in … the previous eight years, the average rate of fall in employment in informal manufacturing was about 0.5 per cent per year …. Using PLFS data on employment and earnings, we estimate that nominal GVA in India’s unorganized manufacturing fell by 14 …
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on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay …-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two spatially delimited areas, bringing Ghana's major metropolitan centres to a standstill … that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the treated districts …
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both the extensive and intensive margins, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in … which strict stay-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two spatially delimited areas, bringing Ghana's major …-in-differences design, we find that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the …
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. Indeed, economic losses caused by disasters depend on the level of capital (human capital, employment and capital stock) and … because while capital stock, employment and human capital unconditionally reduce the macroeconomic impact of natural disasters …
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This paper measures the macroeconomic impact of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the generalized synthetic control method and evaluates the role played by natural resource dependence on the modulation of the impact. We find that political crisis, protests and...
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This paper measures the macroeconomic impact of recent political crisis, protest and uprisings in Africa with the generalized synthetic control method and evaluates the role played by natural resource dependence in the modulation of the impact. We find that political crisis, protests and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292095
The objective of the paper is to evaluate whether there is a change in the level or trend of food prices in fragile countries following the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. The empirical evidence is based on Interrupted Time Series Analysis. The following findings are established....
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. Indeed, economic losses caused by disasters depend on the level of capital (human capital, employment and capital stock) and … because while capital stock, employment and human capital unconditionally reduce the macroeconomic impact of natural disasters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310273