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decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …We examine the impact of COVID-19 on employment in South Korea as of June 2020. To estimate the causal effect, we use …
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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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This paper presents estimates of the effect of emergency and extended unemployment benefits (EEB) on the unemployment … ineligible for EEB back to the late 1970s. To identify these estimates, we examine how exit rates from unemployment change across … different points of the distribution of unemployment duration when EEB is and is not available, controlling for changes in labor …
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This paper analyses the difference in short-term employment recovery between young men and women in India, Peru and … women and an increase in the gender employment gap. In line with the literature, we find evidence that the unequal … of the change in the employment gap in India. Contrary to the previous literature, however, we find little evidence that …
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, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of employment outcomes - including permanent layoffs, which generate large … examine how these employment patterns vary across different states, according to the timing and severity of virus caseloads … economic activity reduce employment rates concurrently, but do not seem to have lingering effects once relaxed. In contrast …
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Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
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employment, and these H-1Bs substantially crowd out firms’ employment of other workers. There is some evidence that additional H …
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(employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points …
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