district level with 36 quarterly rounds of labour force surveys in Jamaica. The empirical strategy exploits variation arising … framework. Controlling for potential biases due to initial conditions, panel attrition, and employment selection, findings … of whether the individual was initially employed in a formal or an informal job. When the marginal effects of the storm …

The main aim of this article is to point out the possible measures of how to improve the study of informal employment … are suitable for indicating the prevalence of informal employment. Firstly, we present the most popular definitions of … informal employment, secondly we show the existing research on informal employment in Poland, and thirdly we assess the …

-and its implications for the measurement of employment. Our results suggest that employment rates among US household heads … employment-to-population ratio would have been 0.25 to 1.1 percentage points higher over the 2015-2022 period and as much as 5 … informal work hours are missing from official employment surveys, partly because employed individuals do not fully report their …

participates in nonstandard work arrangements. Such arrangements tend to lack long-term employment contracts and are often referred … of employment status and labor market slack. Using original survey data, we find that as of 2015 roughly 37 percent of … individual's employment status according to the definitions of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While not the majority, a …

participates in nonstandard work arrangements. Such arrangements tend to lack long-term employment contracts and are often referred … of employment status and labor market slack. Using original survey data, we find that as of 2015 roughly 37 percent of … elicits an individual's employment status according to the definitions of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While not the …

how disasters affect long-run growth. Based on truly exogenous storm indicators, derived from a meteorological database … protect against storm consequences. We show that the negative growth effects in underdeveloped countries are amplified by an …

We develop a model of a small region with durable housing, endogenous home maintenance, and disaster expectations, in …

) econometric approach that identifies the effects of shocks resulting from hurricanes. Based on the Quarterly Census of Employment … and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as … counties; however, this is coupled with a slower growth rate in employment. Powerful hurricanes have greater effects than their …

shocks to determine their impact on wages and employment in three different industries (construction, manufacturing, and …

. Concomitantly, employment falls between 1½ and 5% depending on hurricane strength. On the other hand, the effects of hurricanes on … better examine the specific shocks, we also observe sectoral employment shifts. Finally, we conduct a time-series analysis … and find that over time, there is somewhat of a cobweb with earnings and employment rising and falling each quarter over a …