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How did the COVID-19 crisis affect different types of workers in the developing world?
Kugler, Maurice; Viollaz, Mariana; Duque, Daniel; … - 2021
This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set of high-frequency phone surveys conducted by the World Bank and National Statistics Offices...
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COVID-19, job loss, and underemployment : who is affected?
Epetia, Ma. Christina F. - In: The Philippine review of economics : a joint … 58 (2021) 1/2, pp. 63-91
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Employment protection legislation, labor courts, and effective firing costs
Jimeno, Juan F.; Martínez-Matute, Marta; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/2, pp. 1-26
In many countries, labor courts play a central role in the determination of firing costs by monitoring and supervising the procedures for dismissals, and, eventually, deciding severance payments mandated by the employment protection legislation (EPL). To get some insights about the impact of...
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The effect of job loss und unemployment insurance on crime in Brazil
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Pinotti, Paolo; Sampaio, Breno - 2020
We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data on … are less subject to differential reporting by employment status. We then evaluate the mitigating effect of unemployment … benefits leveraging on discontinuous changes in eligibility. Regression discontinuity estimates suggest that unemployment …
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The effect of job loss and unemployment insurance on crime in Brazil
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Pinotti, Paolo; Sampaio, Breno - 2020
We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data … effect of unemployment benefits leveraging on discontinuous changes in eligibility. Regression discontinuity estimates … suggest that unemployment benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon …
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The detrimental effect of job protection on employment : evidence from France
Cahuc, Pierre; Malherbet, Franck; Prat, Julien - 2019
years in case of unfair dismissal. We show, relying on data, that this regulation entails a hike in severance payments at … the fragility of low-seniority jobs implies that layoff costs reduce the average job duration and increase unemployment …
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The path through : early COVID-19 job loss and labour market trajectories in Austria
Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2024
the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …
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The effect of job loss and unemployment insurance on crime in Brazil
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Pinotti, Paolo; Sampaio, Breno - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226157
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Pandemic layoffs and the role of stay-at-home orders
Kudlyak, Marianna; Wolcott, Erin L. - 2024
We compile a novel high-frequency, detailed geographic dataset on mass layoffs from U.S. state labor departments. Using recent advances in difference-in-difference estimation with staggered treatment, we find that locally-mandated stay-at-home orders issued March 16–22, 2020 triggered mass...
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Essays on macroeconomics
Belviso, Francesco - 2006
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