market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in the short run …This paper provides a robust estimation of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment … various covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces unemployment rate. This finding is robust to …

This book assesses the impacts of COVID-19 on the Indonesian economy, particularly on employment, education, poverty …

. After evaluating the impact of the health crisis at the individual level, this study decomposes employment losses into …The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it … results show that while face-to-face services were undoubtedly hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis, the sectoral shock was less …

We show that the opioid crisis slows transitions to employment from unemployment and non-participation, implying slower … recovery from recessions. We identify the effect of the opioid crisis from cross-state variation in triplicate prescribing … in triplicate states to return to employment about 10 percent faster than workers in non-triplicate states. These …