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There is a concern among social scientists and policymakers that the COVID-19 crisis might permanently change the nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during the pandemic by web scraping job ads from a leading job search website. As in the U.S., the number of...
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employment, especially in sectors exposed to trade and intensive in labor. The limited empirical evidence suggests that the …
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employment, especially in sectors exposed to trade and intensive in labor and energy. Growing empirical evidence suggests that …
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how the Spanish labour market reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled …
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on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … higher degree of flexibility in weekly hours. The 2012 reform is found to preserve employment and generate a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …
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might affect employment in different ways. A policy shift toward a low-carbon green economy may create new and additional … crowding out of employment in other sectors. In addition, energy prices may increase owing to feed-in tariffs subsidizing …
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conventional fossil fuel power plants with renewable sources. Such a policy shift may affect employment in different ways. On the … employment in other sectors. An additional consideration is the potential increase in energy prices, which has the potential to …
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As part of a more general process of employment reallocation from less to more productive employers, job-to-job flows …
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employment and unemployment. However, it can be seriously misleading to ignore the interrelated behavior of hours worked ….Work hours can be altered relatively speedily and flexibly, and this strongly relates to employment, labor productivity, and … unemployment outcomes. The hours–employment distinction is especially important in the evaluation of the performances of European …
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until the end of April 2020 and find that it can explain up to 58% of these short-term employment outcomes. …
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