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This paper uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant policy levers. It compiles a collection of literature using a standardized measurement framework to determine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers. It examines the relevant...
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in Chile aimed at enhancing employability and wages, namely Youth Employment Subsidy (SEJ), Women's Employment Subsidy … impact of local labor market policies in developing countries. This article analyzes the impact of three employment programs … territorial units, time effects, and geographic factors are all employed as controls per each matching procedure. For wages …
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flood risk has a large negative impact on firm entry, employment, and output in the long run; and (2) flood events reduce … output in the short run while their impact on firm entry and employment is limited. Motivated by these findings, we construct … a spatial equilibrium model to characterize how flood risk shapes firms' location choices and workers' employment, which …
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Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference model. We find that this … permanent hiring. We also find a negative association between reinstatements and real wages of 3.9 %, but placebo tests indicate … policy to increase permanent hiring and wages. …
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turn strain the public finances. However, positive net migration boosted by favorable employment prospects has helped keep …
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that increased drought frequency in the previous decade reduces local value added, employment and wages in the agricultural …
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Assessing linkages across different regions and how macroeconomic shocks spread out across regions is not an easy task. In this study we address this problem using a global vector autoregressive methodology that deals with the curse of dimensionality in an ingenious form. Focusing on the...
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This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in …. Results based on data from the Current Population Survey for the years 1994-2005 do not indicate that minimum wages have … adverse employment effects among adult immigrants or natives who did not complete high school. However, low-skilled immigrants …
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We examine how the rapid growth in imports of manufactured goods from China affected industry-level employment in … manufacturing employment of between 89,900 and 209,800 workers – accounting for 8.5 to 19.8 per cent of manufacturing employment in …
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