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market between employment, unemployment, and professional inactivity. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a severe drop in the …
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The frequency of labor inspections in Brazil increased in the late 1990s. In the years that followed, between 2003 and 2007, formal employment expanded significantly in the country. This paper examines whether these city-level changes in labor inspections could be a significant factor...
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depreciation upon job loss—and its interaction with labor market institutions. We have three main results, based on a life … between turbulence and institutions explains most of the reduction in labor force participation among older workers in Europe … over this period, but ultimately explains little of the rise in unemployment. Third, only a small share of the increase in …
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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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unemployment rates while evaluating the tightness of the labor market. …
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Human capital is a vital component in the production process, so the size of the labor force can profoundly affect the potential for economic growth. In the United States, the overall labor force participation rate (LFPR)the percent of the population supplying labor to the marketbegan to grow in...
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This paper evaluates the effects for the Spanish case of allowing greater flexibility regarding the weekly hours worked on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross-sectional distribution of workweeks across plants, as well as...
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employment and female economic inactivity. The analysis is based on macro data and is focused on the years 2016-2019. To examine … unemployment components, analysis of changes in the structure of nonparticipants and the shift-share method. Considering that the …
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higher education institutions cannot create adequate value in the market and in turn which causes the youth unemployment to …, in which students work at public institutions during their university education to gain experience, professional skills … become prominent as an active and robust workplace policy in fighting youth unemployment. …
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test the explanatory power of the lockdown index for short-time work and unemployment increases by canton and industry …
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