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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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Turbulence and the employment experience of older workers
Lalé, Etienne - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 735-784
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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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?
Earle, John S. - 2014
Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...
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Changes in the aggregate labor force participation rate
Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2009
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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Working-week flexibility : implications for employment and productivity
Osune, Victoria - 2014
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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Modelling nonlinear behavior of labor force participation rate by STAR : an application for Turkey
Cengiz, Sibel; Şahin, Afşin - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 7 (2014) 1, pp. 113-127
unemployment rates while evaluating the tightness of the labor market. …
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Searching for the cause of the gender gap in employment losses during the COVID-19 Crisis
Kim, Jiyeon - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 43 (2021) 2, pp. 53-79
large as the gap in the Employment to Unemployment (E to U) transition rates. Women’s overrepresentation in the face …
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Increased labor market participation can't do the job of mastering Germany's demographic change in the future
Brenke, Karl; Clemens, Marius - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 33/35, pp. 325-334
In the last decade the available labor force has expanded in Germany-despite the decline in the working-age population. The reason: labor market participation has increased, for women in particular and older people in general. Also noticeable was a rise in qualification level because...
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Knowledge‑intensive business services employment structure and economic development in EU regions
Markowska, Małgorzata; Hlaváček, Petr; Strahl, Danuta - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 4, pp. 109-133
The study presents the results of grouping EU NUTS 2 regions based on the share of employment in particular sectors (knowledge‑intensive high‑technology services, knowledge‑intensive market services and other knowledge‑intensive services), as well as GDP per capita, in 2008 and 2018. The...
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Gender wage disparity and economic prosperity in Pakistan
Javed, Maria Faiq; Jadoon, Atif Khan; Malik, Ayesha; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16
The present study is designed to examine the relationship between wage inequalities and economic prosperity in the case of Pakistan. Using provincial-level data for the years 2000 to 2020, the study estimated a multivariate regression model by employing Auto Regressive Distributive Lag (ARDL)...
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