We use Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey to explore the labor market impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Specifically, we adopt a unique identification strategy to examine the heterogeneous causal effects of the COVID-19 economic shutdown by governments on hours worked across the...

State and local policies increasingly restrict employers' access to criminal records, but without addressing the underlying reasons that employers may conduct criminal background checks. Employers may thus still want to ask about a job applicant's criminal record later in the hiring process or...

This paper presents the methodological approach used to analyse and assess an active labour market policy called Dote Unica del Lavoro (DUL) implemented by the Lombardy Region with reference to the period October 2013-June 2014 and addressed to 25 thousand beneficiaries. The aim of the project...