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Using quarterly temperature and employment data between 1990 and 2021, this paper uncovers nuanced evidence on the … impact of seasonal temperature within US counties: higher winter temperature increases private sector employment growth while … "Financial Activities." In contrast, the positive effects of a warmer winter are less pervasive. The employment effect of a …
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This paper estimates the costs of ‘de-risking’ scenarios between China and OECD members at the aggregate and sectoral levels. Aggregate large-scale de-risking – reshoring by increasing reliance on domestic production and friend-shoring by reducing imports from specific foreign countries...
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The paper examines the usage of the Renminbi (RMB) as an international payment currency. Globally, the use of RMB remains small, accounting for 2 percent of total cross-border transactions. Using country-level transaction data from Swift** for 2010-21, we find significant regional variations in...
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We quantify the extent to which public-sector employment crowds out private-sector employment using specially assembled … private-sector employment rates and high proportions of government-sector employment. Regressions of either private …-sector employment rates or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that …
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The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …
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? -- IV. Women to the Rescue: Policies to Raise FLP in Japan -- A. Hurdle 1: Employment and Promotion Policies -- B. Hurdle 2 …
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We provide a consistent empirical framework to estimate the net joint effect of emigration and remittances on the migrants' countries of origin key economic variables (GDP growth and labor force participation), while addressing the endogeneity concerns using novel "shift-share" instrumental...
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gender gaps in employment and job loss related to the COVID-19 crisis. Using a sample of Latin American countries, our … findings suggest that higher levels of digitalization are associated with increased female employment and reduced job loss for …
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Three years after the COVID-19 crisis, employment and total hours worked in Europe fully recovered, but average hours …
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female employment and reduces gender inequality, the effect being more pronounced in firms without traditional financial …
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