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between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …
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, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. … recession and in its aftermath, including the sharp decline in labor force participation and informal employment that is unique … technologies introduced at the trough of the recession bolsters the recovery of GDP, total employment, and labor income, and leads …
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logistic regression analysis is used to estimate the correlation between employment/unemployment and the various explanatory …Albania and North Macedonia, as many countries in South-Eastern Europe, struggle with youth unemployment which is … employment. But statistics show that youth employment faces many challenges and has higher rates compared to other categories of …
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Background: Although unemployment rates are at historical lows, there is still a persistent gap between unemployment …. Conclusions: Lowering the disproportionate rate at which black men are incarcerated will not in itself eliminate the unemployment …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted an economic hardship unprecedented for the modern age. In this paper, we show that the health crisis and ensuing Great Lockdown, came with an unseen level of economic uncertainty. First, using a European dataset on country-level and regional internet searches,...
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There is a concern among social scientists and policymakers that the COVID-19 crisis might permanently change the nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during the pandemic by web scraping job ads from a leading job search website. As in the U.S., the number of...
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This paper aims to verify the effect of Official Development Assistance (ODA) on employment in Africa, considering … sectoral employment and sub-regional groupings. The data is collected for 37 African countries between the 1996 to 2019 periods …/Kraay estimators. The results reveal that official development aid harms employment in Africa. Looking at sectoral employment, we found …
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find out, based on the analysis of employment, unemployment, vacancies, and wages in various job categories in the Czech … establish employment and wages. Data were processed using descriptive statistical methods. An evaluation of the variance was … performed among the selected variables. A t-test was used to measure differences in job security between the observed employment …
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employment loss and increased unpaid household work) suffered during such pandemic outbreaks in future. Our research delves into …
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working hours, rather than through contraction of employment and surge in unemployment. The general conclusion is that the … economic downturns. The most noteworthy among the long-term changes are a gradual shrinkage of the labor force and employment …, the transition to record low unemployment, a sharp acceleration in worker turnover, and the emergence of an extensive …
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