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Theory and empirics of short-time work : a review

Bermudez, Natalia; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Tarullo, Giulia - 2023

Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed …

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The impact of labor market policies on job search behavior and post-unemployment job quality

Gaure, Simen (contributor); Røed, Knud (contributor); … - 2008

We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies - in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) - on the duration and outcome of job search and on the quality of a subsequent job. We find that time invested in job search tends to pay off in the form...

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The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality

Gaure, Simen; Roed, Knut; Westlie, Lars - 2021

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Did a Successful Fight Against the Covid-19 Pandemic Come at a Cost? Impacts of the Outbreak on Employment Outcomes in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh; Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2021

samples. Further heterogeneity analysis suggests that the effects vary across education levels and occupation sectors but are …

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Policies to help the working class in the aftermath of COVID-19: lessons from the Great Recession

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government mandated shutdowns caused a historic shock to the U.S. economy and a disproportionate job loss concentrated among the working class. While an unprecedented social safety net policy response successfully offset earnings loses among lower-wage...

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Did a successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic come at a cost? : impacts of the outbreak on employment outcomes in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

samples. Further heterogeneity analysis suggests that the effects vary across education levels and occupation sectors but are …

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A lockdown index to assess the economic impact of the coronavirus

Faber, Marius; Ghisletta, Andrea; Schmidheiny, Kurt - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 156 (2020) 1/11, pp. 1-23

Like most countries, the Swiss government adopted drastic measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus. These … put on short-time work within only 6 weeks after the policy’s implementation. In an attempt to promptly assess the … test the explanatory power of the lockdown index for short-time work and unemployment increases by canton and industry …

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The unemployment impact of the COVID-19 shutdown measures in Germany

Bauer, Anja; Weber, Enzo - 2020

This paper evaluates the short-term labour market impact of the COVID-19 Containment measures in Germany. We take the closure of economic sectors such as restaurants and retail as a treatment, which enables difference-in-difference estimation. Additionally considering input-output linkages...

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Unemployment paths in a pandemic economy

Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Valletta, Robert G. - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds the path for measured unemployment, depending on the...

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Labor market policies during an epidemic

Birinci, Serdar; Karahan, Fatih; Mercan, Yusuf; See, Kurt - 2020

We study the positive and normative implications of labor market policies that counteract the economic fallout from containment measures during an epidemic. We incorporate a standard epidemiological model into an equilibrium search model of the labor market to compare unemployment insurance (UI)...

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