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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 path of the virus and containment measures and their impact on …

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How did the COVID-19 crisis affect different types of workers in the developing world?

Kugler, Maurice; Viollaz, Mariana; Duque, Daniel; … - 2021

This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set of high-frequency phone surveys conducted by the World Bank and National Statistics Offices...

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No role for the Hartz reforms? : demand and supply factors in the German labor market, 1993-2014

Burda, Michael C.; Seele, Stefanie - 2016

The supply and demand framework of Katz and Murphy (1992) provides new evidence on the source of changes in socially insured full-time and part-time employment in years preceding and following the implementation of the landmark Hartz reforms in Germany. Our findings are consistent with a stable...

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The heterogeneous labor market impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic

Matias, Guido; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2020

We study the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic's impacts on employment. Using CPS data on stocks and flows, we show that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Although employment losses have been widespread, they have been substantially larger in lower-paying...

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Employment and labour market vulnerabilities during COVID-19 : the case of Romania

Chivu, Luminita; Georgescu, George - 2021

support measures, in the short term, the Romanian labour market is facing the unemployment rate increase, at least in 2020, as …

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Wage losses and inequality in developing countries : labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey

Duman, Anil - 2020

We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...

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Who's hit hardest? : the persistence of the employment shock by the COVID-19 crisis

Han, Joseph - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 43 (2021) 2, pp. 23-51

The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it. After evaluating the impact of the health crisis at the individual level, this study decomposes employment losses into persistent and transitory components using the observed...

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