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Immigration, Partnership Dynamics and Welfare Persistence

Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas; Kahanec, Martin - 2025

When economic crises destabilize labor markets, they offer unique opportunities to explore welfare dynamics and the interplay between partnership formation and social assistance. Using data from Sweden's 1990s economic crisis, characterized by high unemployment, expanding budget deficit, and a...

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Structural State Dependence in Social Assistance through the Lens of Couples' Ethnic Composition. Evidence from Swedish Panel Data

Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas; Kahanec, Martin - 2025

This study investigates whether couple ethnic composition shapes household welfare dependence, a relevant dimension overlooked in previous studies. Using fifteen years of Swedish panel data and a dynamic discrete-choice model that addresses initialconditions and unobserved heterogeneity, we...

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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do, Minh N. N. - 2024

While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...

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Did a Successful Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic Come at a Cost? Impacts of the Outbreak on Employment Outcomes in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2020

transmission. We offer the first study that examines the effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on various employment outcomes … rate, the temporary layoff rate, and decreases the quality of employment. It also reduces workers' numbers of working hours …

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The Evolution of Labor Market Disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic Men: 1970-2019

Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

employment and earnings gains are attributable to Hispanic immigrants, particularly immigrants not fluent in English. … evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 …

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The Evolution of Labor Market Disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic Men: 1970-2019

Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

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Robots, Meaning, and Self-Determination

Nikolova, Milena; Cnossen, Femke - 2022

work, robotization will impact the present and the future of work above and beyond its consequences for employment and …

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Measuring Poverty in Forced Displacement Contexts

Pape, Utz; Verme, Paolo - 2023

Poverty measurement among forcibly displaced populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons, has been, for long, neglected by the economics profession and by poverty specialists working across the social sciences. This has changed since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in...

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Is There An Income-Happiness Puzzle in China? A National Survey, 2003-2021

Yang, Jinyang - 2023

This study investigates the income-happiness puzzle in China by examining the trends in happiness and economic growth over the past two decades. It is the first long-term study in China to utilize a consistent national representative survey in the new century. Using data from the Chinese General...

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Just another cog in the machine? A worker-level view of robotization and tasks

Nikolova, Milena; Lepinteur, Anthony; Cnossen, Femke - 2023

Using survey data from 20 European countries, we construct novel worker-level indices of routine, abstract, social, and physical tasks, which we combine with industry-level robotization exposure. Our conceptual framework builds on the insight that robotization simultaneously replaces, creates,...

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