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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents

Mann, Samuel - 2020

This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...

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Divergence in labour force growth : should wages and prices grow faster in Germany?

Beissinger, Thomas; Hellier, Joël; Marczak, Martyna - 2020

We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...

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

Dang, Hai-Anh; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do Minh - 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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The impact of minimum wages on employment : evidence from a lower middle-income country

Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2023

In this study, we examine the impact of minimum wages in Vietnam using individual-level data from the 2012-2020 annual …

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Did program support for the poorest areas work? : evidence from rural Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh; Deininger, Klaus W.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2024

We investigate the impact of a large-scale poverty alleviation program targeted at 62 poorest districts in Vietnam …

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COVID-19 pandemic and the health and well-being of vulnerable people in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh; Do Minh - 2022

Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 … emerging literatures in public health and economics on the pandemic effects in Vietnam, with a specific focus on vulnerable …

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Inequality in electricity consumption and economic growth : evidence from a small area estimation study

Cuong Viet Nguyen; Nguyen, Duc Khuong; Tran Quang Tuyen - 2021

small areas in Vietnam. It shows evidence of a large spatial heterogeneity in the electric power consumption between … districts and provinces in Vietnam. Households in the mountains and highlands consumed remarkably less electricity than those in … and economic levels in Vietnam. In poor districts and provinces, there is very high inequality in electricity consumption …

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An ex-ante assessment on poverty and cash transfer benefits in Viet Nam under the Covid-19 pandemic

Long Thanh Giang; Kikkawa, Aiko; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021

Using household data from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) and the sector-specific growth and … Vietnam on the income and poverty status of households. Our simulations suggest that COVID-19 leads to substantial reduction …

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The beneficial impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on air pollution : evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh; Trinh, Trong-Anh - 2020

pollution-linked deaths occur. We offer the first study that examines the pandemic’s impacts on improving air quality in Vietnam …

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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; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low … for Vietnam. We employ difference-in-differences econometric models to estimate the causal effects of the lockdown, using …

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