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Minimum wages and unemployment during economic shocks

Merfeld, Joshua D.; Sharp, Matthew - 2023

This paper studies whether a minimum wage changes how labour markets respond to economic shocks. Using data from South Africa, we show that an agricultural minimum wage leads to higher mean wages with no significant impacts on mean employment. However, these positive aggregate outcomes hide...

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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda

Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - 2021

We present evidence from a six-year field experiment with young job seekers in urban labor markets in Uganda. We study how standard labor market interventions impact their search behavior, long run labor market outcomes, and how these long run outcomes are mediated through search behavior. The...

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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda

Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

: vocational training, vocational training combined with matching youth to firms, and matching only. Training is offered in sectors … with high quality firms. The matching intervention assigns workers for interviews with such firms. At baseline, unskilled … firms. However, youth additionally offered matching become discouraged because call back rates from firm owners are far …

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Unemployment, market work and household production

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009

Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...

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Regional unemployment, gender and time allocation of the unemployed

Gimenez-Nadal, Jose Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are associated with increases in the time devoted to study...

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Trade Reform and Labor Market Dynamics

Botman, Dennis P.J.; Tieman, Alexander F. - 1999

We present an equilibrium-search model with heterogenous workers whosearch for a job in one of two sectors and who lose part of theirskills during unemployment. We show that an import tariff increasethe wage and the employment prospects in the protected sector. Thisresults in a labor market...

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The Added Worker Effect Differentiated by Gender and Partnership Status – Evidence from Involuntary Job Loss

Triebe, Doreen - 2015

difference-in-differences setting in combination with an entropy balancing matching procedure. The paper considers plant closures …

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Intra-Household Coping Mechanisms in Hard Times : The Added Worker Effect In the 2001 Argentine Economic Crisis

Martinoty, Laurine - 2015

This paper shows that the added worker effect (AWE) plays an important role in coping against aggregate shocks, even in cases where the discouragement effect prevails at a macroeconomic scale. Using an Argentine panel dataset between 2000-2002, we instrument the endogenous variation in the labor...

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Women’s Labor Market Responses to Their Partners’ Unemployment and Low-Pay Employment

Keldenich, Carina - 2019

This paper revisits the added worker effect. Using bivariate random-effects probit estimation on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market participation, which also leads to an increase in their...

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Why Do Earnings Fall with Job Displacement?

Carrington, William J. - 2014

matching are an important perspective on the losses of displaced workers, but we cannot rule out important roles for other …

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