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The impact of COVID-19 on health workers : a health labor market perspective to improve response

Bustamante Izquierdo, Juana Paola; Cometto, Giorgio; … - 2024

This paper uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant policy levers. It compiles a collection of literature using a standardized measurement framework to determine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers. It examines the relevant...

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A Beveridge curve decomposition for Austria : what drives the unemployment rate?

Christl, Michael - 2019

The Austrian Beveridge curve shifted in 2014, leading to ongoing academic discussions about the reasons behind this shift. While some have argued that the shift was caused by a supply shock due to labour market liberalization, others have stated that matching efficiency decreased. Using a new...

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The effects of COVID-19 on labour market matching in Austria : a regional and sectoral perspective

Christl, Michael; Kiss, Áron; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2024

This paper examines labour market matching in Austria since 2008, with a particular focus on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic at the regional and sectoral level. We use comprehensive monthly administrative data and apply a standard matching model to estimate Beveridge curves for different...

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The impact of alternative childcare policies on mothers' employment in selected EU countries

Narazani, Edlira; Agúndez García, Ana; Christl, Michael; … - 2023

labour demand, the expected final employment effects will be less pronounced, but still positive. …

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New answers to old questions : the effects of the minimum wage hike in Spain in 2019

Christl, Michael; Enguídanos, Andrea Cubells; Di … - 2024

Our paper examines the effects of the significant 2019 minimum wage hike in Spain on labour market outcomes, prices, and firm bankruptcies. We use the synthetic control method (SCM) to analyze the impact of the policy on the Spanish economy. We find no significant impact of the minimum wage...

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Globalization, technological change and skills : evidence from Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs … affecting employment and skills. The results obtained lend support to a labour-augmenting effect. Moreover, the implemented two …

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The effects of COVID-19 on employment, labour markets and gender equality in Central America

Webster, Allan D.; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021

for analysing the consequences for gender equality in employment. Since the demand for labour is a derived demand firm … firms, This creates a loss of liquidity which, in turn, has caused some firms to reduce employment, working hours and wages … further supported by a regression analysis (OLS and SURE) of several key outcomes (changes in sales, employment, the share of …

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The future of work in developing economies : what can we learn from the South?

Egana-delSol, Pablo - 2020

In recent years, there has been an escalation of concern revolving around the effect that automation will have on the future of work. This anxiety has fueled the public and academic debate, fearing that soon this technology will displace jobs at a large scale. Numerous studies have begun to...

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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession

Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017

The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...

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Technical change, task allocation, and labor unions

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas; Brall, Franziska - 2022

We propose a novel framework that integrates the "task approach" for a more precise production modeling into the search-and-matching model with low- and high-skilled workers, and wage setting by labor unions. We establish the relationship between task reallocation and changes in wage pressure,...

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