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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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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

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 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 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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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 across 20 European countries, which we combine with industry-level robotization exposure. Our conceptual framework builds on the insight that robotization...

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Land access and poverty among agricultural households in Nigeria

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2024

The problem of land inequality has attracted renewed interest in the development literature due to its potential effects on the welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is an important sustainable development goal and a clearer understanding of the factors that could lead to poverty is...

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Does aging at home make older adults healthy : evidence from medicaid home and community-based services

Liu, Yinan; Zai, Xianhua - 2022

The Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) subsidizes long-term care to satisfy the increasing desire to age at home among older adults. The HCBS program may improve health outcomes of this population by allowing them to age-in-place, but less quality and quantity of home-based care...

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Work meaningfulness and effort

Cnossen, Femke; Nikolova, Milena - 2024

Self-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at...

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