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Cash Transfers and Migration : Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Gazeaud, Jules - 2020

Will the fast expansion of cash-based programming in developing countries increase international migration? Theoretically, cash transfers may favor international migration by relaxing liquidity, credit, and risk constraints. But transfers, especially those conditional upon staying at home, may...

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Does Violence in Non-War Zones Impact Labor Market Outcomes

Ayesh, Abubakr - 2021

This paper analyzes a context where sustained violence happens in non-war zones. Specifically, this paper considers terrorist attacks in Pakistan and focuses on districts which were never an active war zone, but still suffered from intermittent terrorist attacks of varying intensity. We provide...

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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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Heterogeneous effects of state enterprise zone programs in the shorter run and longer run

Neumark, David; Young, Timothy - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 35 (2021) 2, pp. 91-107

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The varying impact of COVID-19 in the Spanish labor market

Cabanillas-Jiménez, Guillermo; Galanakis, Yannis - 2022

Historically, the Spanish labor market has been quite unstable. The unexpected arrival of COVID-19 in 2020 has stressed these vulnerabilities. In this paper, we analyze the immediate impact of the pandemic on Spanish labor market outcomes. We find that, during the lockdown period, individuals...

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Does Telework Reduce Unequal Impacts of the COVID-19 Disaster on Job Losses Across Genders?

Hou, Jingbo; Liang, Chen; Chen, Pei-Yu; Gu, Bin - 2022

workers’ labor market outcomes (i.e., unemployment, work absence, and lay off). Furthermore, according to the prior literature … example. Results show that: 1) The COVID-19 disaster leads to a larger increase in unemployment, work absence, and layoff for …

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Job training and job search assistance policies in developing countries

Carranza Noguera, Eliana; McKenzie, David J. - 2023

Governments around the developing world face pressure to intervene actively to help jobseekers find employment. Two of the most common policies used are job training, based on the idea that many of those seeking jobs lack the skills employers want, and job search assistance, based on the...

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The early effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market outcomes of natives and migrants in the UK

Morando, Greta - 2021

using UK data, it finds that unemployment has increased for both natives and migrants as has, consequently, the benefits …

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Unemployment of unskilled labor due to COVID-19 led restriction on migration and trade

Mandal, Biswajit; Chaudhuri, Saswati; Prasad, Alaka Shree - 2020

migration and trade. This paper aims to check the effect of such restrictions on the unemployment of unskilled labor in the … raises unemployment for given factor intensity. The results remain same even in a slightly different structure of the economy …. In case of trade restriction, however, the rise or fall in unemployment depends on both the structure of the economy and …

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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...

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