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Lockdown and rural joblessness in India : gender inequality in employment?
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022
India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India, economic shocks are expected to have disparate...
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Impact of Foreign Direct Investments on Unemployment in Emerging Market Economies : A Co-Integration Analysis
Bayar, Yilmaz - 2018
investments on the unemployment in 21 emerging economies over the period 1994-2014. Design/methodology/approach: The effect of … domestic and foreign direct investments on unemployment was investigated via panel data analysis. First tests of cross … unemployment. Furthermore, foreign direct investment inflows affected the unemployment positively in the long term, but domestic …
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The Effect of Unemployment on Self-Reported Health and Mental Health in Greece from 2008 to 2013 : A Longitudinal Study Before and During the Financial Crisis
Drydakis, Nick - 2015
obtain longitudinal estimations suggesting statistically significant negative effects from unemployment on self …-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications suggest that unemployment results in lower health and the …'s unemployment doubled as a consequence of the financial crisis.Unemployment seems to be more detrimental to health/mental health in …
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Task content and job losses in the Great Lockdown
Petroulakis, Filippos - 2020
I examine the short-term labor market effects of the Great Lockdown in the United States. I analyze job losses by task content (Acemoglu & Autor 2011), and show that they follow underlying trends; jobs with a high non-routine content are especially well-protected, even if they are not...
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Labour tax reforms, cross-country coordination and the monetary policy stance in the euro area : a structural model-based approach
Jacquinot, Pascal; Lozej, Matija; Pisani, Massimiliano - 2018
We evaluate the effects of permanently reducing labour tax rates in the euro area (EA) by simulating a large-scale open economy dynamic general equilibrium model. The model features the EA as a monetary union, split in two regions (Home and the rest of the EA - REA), the US, and the rest of the...
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Does government-backed lending prevent unemployment? : an assessment of the Swiss COVID-19 lending program
Kaufmann, Daniel - 2020
This paper identifies the effect of variation in government-backed loan supply on unemployment exploiting regional …. This variation helps disentangling supply from demand effects. Higher loan supply reduces unemployment. Increasing the … between CHF 39,700 and CHF 52,400 per year. These costs are somewhat lower than unemployment benefits associated with the …
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Regional and Sectoral Evidence of the Macro-Economic Effects of Labor Reallocation : A Panel Data Analysis
Bakas, Dimitrios - 2013
This paper re-examines Lilien's sectoral shifts hypothesis for U.S. unemployment. We employ a monthly panel that spans … stationarity of unemployment. Within a framework that takes into account dynamics, parameter heterogeneity and cross …
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The German labor market in the Great Recession : shocks and institutions
Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2017
This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for postunification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...
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Counteracting unemployment in crises : non-linear effects of short-time work policy
Gehrke, Britta; Hochmuth, Brigitte - 2018
Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...
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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany : conference paper
Hertweck, Matthias Sebastian; Sigrist, Oliver - 2013
(1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …
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