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Employment guaranteed? : social protection during a pandemic

Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - In: Oxford open economics 1 (2022), pp. 1-15

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential of social protection programs in mitigating labor market shocks. We examine the role of one of the world’s largest employment guarantee schemes, India’s MG-NREGA, in cushioning job losses in one of the worst affected economies due to the...

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Active labor market as an instrument to reduce unemployment

Irandoust, Manuchehr - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 9 (2023), pp. 1-10

In order to have an impact on the labor market, welfare states must implement active labor market policies (ALMPs). The effectiveness of ALMPs has only been the subject of a few numbers of studies, the majority of which only take into account the short-term effects of ALMPs and use aggregate...

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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice

Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and births as well as male employment, which entailed a work ban for the wife and sizeable credit deductions for children. This paper illustrates that the policy was rather...

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Gender and the pandemic in political ideology : the case of Spain

Zuazu, Izaskun - 2024

Gender gaps in political ideology transformed from traditional gaps (women showing more right-leaning than men) to modern gaps (women showing more left-leaning) in the last four decades in Western countries. However, Spain lagged behind in this transformation. This paper analyses how labour...

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Do Wage Subsidies Help Young Women Get Jobs?

World Bank - 2014

Unemployment among young adults is a problem throughout the world, and it's of particular concern in the Middle East, where half the population is under the age of 25 and more than a quarter of those aged 15-24 are out of work. Young women fare worse than men when it comes to finding jobs....

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The working poor facing the great recession in Southern Europe

Sommeiller, Estelle - In: Athens journal of business & economics : AJBE 6 (2020) 4, pp. 303-330

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How the provision of childcare affects attitudes towards maternal employment

Roth, Anja - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 156 (2020) 1/17, pp. 1-30

Do childcare institutions affect gender norms of individuals? I examine the introduction of childcare services and their impact on voters' support of policies promoting maternal employment. I address the inherent endogeneity between institutions and attitudes by exploiting regional variation in...

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Soft Skills or Hard Cash? The Impact of Training and Wage Subsidy Programs on Female Youth Employment in Jordan

Groh, Matthew; Krishnan, Nandini; McKenzie, David J. - 2012

Throughout the Middle East, unemployment rates of educated youth have been persistently high and female labor force participation, low. This paper studies the impact of a randomized experiment in Jordan designed to assist female community college graduates find employment. One randomly chosen...

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The COVID-19 pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean countries : the labor supply impact by gender

Viollaz, Mariana; Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2022

We study the labor supply impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender in four Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. To identify the impact, we compare labor market stocks and labor market flows over four quarters for a set of balanced panel...

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Mit Sozialpolitik regieren : eine ressourcentheoretische Policy-Analyse der Beschäftigungsförderung benachteiligter Jugendlicher in Österreich

Knecht, Alban - 2024

Wie kann die Arbeitsmarktpolitik Jugendliche beim Berufseinstieg unterstützen? Alban Knecht analysiert politische … for disadvantaged youth in Austria discusses the introduction of measures such as the supra-company apprenticeship, the …-political implementation. The research findings obtained are not only relevant for Austria, but also offer valuable insights for training …

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