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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa

Golub, Stephen S.; Hayat, Faraz - 2014

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...

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COVID-19 and employment in South Korea: trends and comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis

Nam, Minhyuk; Lee, Soohyung - 2021

decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …

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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019

advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …

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How do labor markets affect crime? New evidence on an old puzzle

Mustard, David B. - 2010

For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...

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Does Homeownership Harm Labour Market Performances? A Survey

Havet, Nathalie; Penot, Alexis - 2010

While many countries have implemented various incentives to promote home- ownership, this paper investigates the literature on the relationship between this residential status and the labour market performances. Since the rather nega- tive original contribution by Oswald (1996), the literature...

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How Do Labor Markets Affect Crime? New Evidence on an Old Puzzle

Mustard, David B. - 2010

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The labor market impact of Covid-19 on Asian Americans

Mena, Chris de; Qin, Suvy; Zhang, Jing - 2023

Asian Americans faced a disproportionately larger surge in unemployment rates than other racial and ethnic groups … more selective about job opportunities, contributing to their higher unemployment rate than other groups. Analysis of …

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European Vs. American Hours Worked : Assessing the Role of the Extensive and Intensive Margins

Langot, François; Quintero Rojas, Coralia - 2021

Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin,...

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How do labor markets affect crime? : new evidence on an old puzzle

Mustard, David B. - 2010

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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession

Neumark, David - 2015

, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …

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