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Does extending unemployment benefits improve job quality?
Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - 2015
Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. A search model...
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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-38
The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or...
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The Short-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Market Participation : Evidence from an Individual-Level Panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870388
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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Nekoei, Arash - 2015
Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. A search model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023002
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Impact of COVID-19 crisis on rural youth : evidence from a panel survey and an experiment
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Imbert, Clément - 2021
This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603410
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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978325
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COVID-19 and Labour Law : Argentina. Update 2 July 2020
Chiuffo, Facundo Martin - 2020
Argentina has had a profound regulatory activity to counteract the coronavirus pandemic so far and its consequences, which appear to worsen as time goes by. Based on the experience of other countries, a strict lockdown was put into place at an early stage, which has been opening up slowly but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095230
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Globalisation versus informality : evidence from developing countries
Pham, Thi Hong Hanh - 2011
by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill … this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the linkages running from globalisation to informality in developing … of indicators most likely to influence the size of informality. Our finding reveals that the indicators with consistently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346442
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The impact of public transport expansions on informality : the case of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region
Moreno, Ana Isabel; Ramos, Frederico Roman - 2015
system on local informality rates for the SPMR between 2000 and 2010. We compare the average changes in informality in areas … informality decreased on average 15 percent faster in areas receiving new public transport infrastructure compared to areas that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476197
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Could Mexico become the new "China"? : policy drivers of competitiveness and productivity
Dougherty, Sean M.; Escobar, Octavio R. - 2016
sluggish productivity improvements, particularly to determine how labour informality may have contributed. The study takes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610937