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This paper examines the labour market impacts of Finland's initial COVID-19 subsidy program, designed to mitigate the economic fallout of the pandemic. Utilising a novel and comprehensive dataset and a judge-leniency instrumental variables design, we analyse the effects of these subsidies at...
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The COVID-19 pandemic had disproportionate impacts on women's employment, especially for mothers with school-age and younger children. However, the impacts likely varied depending on the type of policy response adopted by various governments. New Zealand presents a unique policy setting in which...
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We evaluate the direct employment effect of the public investment in key infrastructure - electricity, roads, schools and hospitals, and water and sanitation. Using rich firm-level panel data from 41 countries over 19 years, we estimate that US$1 million of public spending on infrastructure...
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We provide evidence on the evolution of worker reallocation in Italy and Spain during the pandemic. In both countries, job-to-job transition rates fell in 2020 but improved in 2021 in aggregate. We then focus on cross-sectoral mobility following job separation. In Italy, we find a modest...
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participation. Such measures as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Self-employment Income Support Scheme served a useful …
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This paper studies the macroeconomic effects and sequencing of (LMRs) and product (PMRs) market reforms in Morocco. It finds that introducing LMRs and PMRs simultaneously would add about 2.5 percentage points (pp) of GDP growth and reduce unemployment by about 2.2 pp after five years. If...
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Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In … this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high … disutilities. Taking the model to country-level observations, we find that a wedge related to the disutility of market work for …
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This paper studies the relation between work and public health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Combining … administrative data on SARS-CoV-2 infections and short-time work registrations, firm- and worker-level surveys and cell phone …. WFH effectively shields workers from short-term work, firms from COVID-19 distress and substantially reduces infection …
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, little is known about which measures are effective for improving youth work impairment. A hazard rate competing risk model … extent education/training programs, have the intended effect. In other words, work-impaired youths who participate in these … measures have a higher probability of obtaining work/starting an education and a lower probability of experiencing a transition …
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