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We introduce a new word pattern-based method to automatically classify firms' primary concerns related to the spread of epidemic diseases raised in their quarterly earnings conference calls. We construct text-based measures of the costs, benefits, and risks listed firms in the US and over 80...
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The impact of an economic shock depends both on its severity and the resilience of the economic response. Resilience can include the ability to relocate factors, for example, even when new technologies or skills are not yet at the ready. This resilience per se buffers production and has an...
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measures of self-employment and 1099 workers from administrative tax data. We also present evidence from Amazon Mechanical Turk …
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People with disabilities have low employment and wage levels, and some studies suggest employer discrimination is a … findings is consistent with the idea that disability discrimination continues to impede employment prospects of people with …
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understand the implications of these shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …Using data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health … Surveys, we show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in …
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the U.S. labor market during the first four months of the global COVID-19 pandemic. After aggregate employment fell by 21 … percent through late-April, employment rebounded somewhat through late-June. The re-opening of temporarily shuttered … businesses contributed significantly to the employment rebound, particularly for smaller businesses. We show that worker recall …
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The labor-force participation rates of prime-age U.S. workers dropped in March 2020—the start of the COVID-19 pandemic—and have still not fully recovered. At the same time, substance-abuse deaths were elevated during the pandemic relative to trend indicating an increase in the number of...
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Much of Africa has not yet gone through a quot;demographic transitionquot; to reduced mortality and fertility rates …
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constraint. Our evidence indicates that constrained firms planned deeper cuts in tech spending, employment, and capital spending …
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to become an entrepreneur and the level of employment of newly created businesses. We focus on the interaction between …
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