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This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120422
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdown policies have disproportionately affected workers at the bottom of the income distribution, thus widening the earnings gap between the top and the bottom percentiles of workers. In this paper, we examine how changes in the labor market due to the...
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response successfully offset earnings loses among lower-wage workers, the risk of continued and persistent unemployment remains …
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-called “codes of fair competition,” which encouraged or mandated wage and price fixing, on over 500 American industries pursuant to …-imposed the NIRA's wage cartel policy by passing the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”). Both the NIRA codes and NLRA wage … aggregate demand, while wage floors increased real wages and the cost of production, thereby altering the shape of the aggregate …
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Recent empirical evidence suggests that skill-biased technological change that shifts labor demand towards non-routine jobs has accelerated during the Great Recession. We analyze the interaction between the gradual process of transition towards a skill intensive technology and business cycles in...
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We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...
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affects additional sectors of the economy where low-wage earners are affected more frequently by STW and suffered on average …
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on nominal wage rigidities at the firm level. I trace out the long-run investment and growth trajectories of firms which … with a higher degree of wage rigidity exhibit a steeper drop in investment and grow more slowly than affected firms with …
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I document a disparity in the cyclicality of the allocative wage-the labor costs considered when deciding to form or … more exhibit an allocative wage that is highly pro-cyclical while high school dropouts exhibit no statistically discernible … wage margin. An important takeaway is that conventional monetary policy easing reduces employment inequality but increases …
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