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The labor market impact of Covid-19 on Asian Americans
de Mena, Chris; Qin, Suvy; Zhang, Jing - 2023
Asian Americans faced a disproportionately larger surge in unemployment rates than other racial and ethnic groups during the Covid-19 pandemic. While existing literature typically examines labor demand channels to explain this, we instead explore a labor supply channel. Our hypothesis is that...
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The Labor Market Impact of Covid-19 on Asian Americans
De Mena, Chris; Zhang, Jing; Qin, Suvy - 2023
Asian Americans faced a disproportionately larger surge in unemployment rates than other racial and ethnic groups during the Covid-19 pandemic. While existing literature typically examines labor demand channels to explain this, we instead explore a labor supply channel. Our hypothesis is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014256475
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How responsive is the labor market to tax policy? : when applied to the most responsive segments of the labor market, tax policy can increase lifetime earnings and employment
Blundell, Richard W. - 2014
With aging populations and increased demands on government revenue, countries need to boost employment and earnings …. Tax policy should focus on labor market entry and retirement. Those are the points where labor supply is most responsive … prolong employment among older workers. Human capital policy has a complementary role in improving the payoff to work and …
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Labour market reform in Japan to cope with a shrinking and ageing population
Jones, Randall Sidney; Seitani, Haruki - 2019
and the era of 100-year lives. A shift to more flexible employment and wage systems based on performance rather than age … would enable Japan to better utilise its human capital. Abolishing the right of firms to set mandatory retirement … discourage the employment of women, namely the lack of work-life balance and shortages of high quality and affordable childcare …
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Maternity and labor markets : impact of legislation in Colombia
Ramírez Bustamante, Natalia; Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria; … - 2015
, and self-employment. The study points to the need for a redesign of maternity protection policy that would enable the …
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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges
Masuch, Klaus (contributor);  … - European System of Central Banks / Monetary Policy … - 2008
The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...
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COVID-19 and Employment Losses for Workers with Disabilities : An Intersectional Approach
Schur, Lisa; Rodgers, Yana; Kruse, Douglas L. - 2021
Black women with disabilities experienced relatively greater employment losses during the pandemic compared to White men … without disabilities. Our decomposition procedures reveal that the disability employment gap increased during the pandemic …
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Skills, Workforce Characteristics and Firm-Level Productivity : Evidence from the Matched Abi/Employer Skills Survey
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Haskel, Jonathan - 2021
We construct firm-level data set with matched productivity and qualification data by linking the Annual Business Inquiry and Employer Skills Survey for England. We first examine the effect of workplace skills and other characteristics such as part-time status and gender on both productivity and...
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
This paper explores secular changes in women's pay relative to men's pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...
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Disability and skill mismatch
Jones, Melanie K.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009
Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour …
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