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Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s Open
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment bei…
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The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment Open
Job loss is an involuntary disruptive life event with a far-reaching impact on workers' life trajectories. Its incidence among growing segments of the workforce, alongside the recent era of severe economic upheaval, has increased attention…
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Misperceived Social Norms: Women Working Outside the Home in Saudi Arabia Open
We show that the vast majority of young married men in Saudi Arabia privately support women working outside the home (WWOH) and substantially underestimate support by other similar men. Correcting these beliefs increases men’s (costly) wil…
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A gendered pandemic: Childcare, homeschooling, and parents' employment during COVID‐19 Open
The COVID‐19 pandemic has dramatically affected employment, particularly for mothers. Many believe that the loss of childcare and homeschooling requirements are key contributors to this trend, but previous work has been unable to test thes…
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Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries Open
Job polarization refers to the shrinking share of employment in middle-skill, routine occupations experienced over the past 35 years. Jobless recoveries refers to the slow rebound in aggregate employment following recent recessions despite…
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Work, Care and Gender during the COVID‐19 Crisis* Open
We explore the effects of the COVID‐19 crisis and the associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the United Kingdom. Using data from the COVID‐19 supplement of Understanding Society, we find e…
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Unemployment and social exclusion Open
This paper analyzes those economic and social consequences of job loss which contribute to exclusion from society, based on German linked survey and administrative data. In order to study the causal relationship between unemployment and mu…
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Searching for Job Security and the Consequences of Job Loss Open
Job loss comes with large present value earnings losses which elude workhorse models of unemployment and labor market policy.I propose a parsimonious model of a frictional labor market in which jobs differ in terms of unemployment risk and…
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COVID-19: how much unemployment was caused by the shutdown in Germany? Open
This paper evaluates the short-term labour market impact of the COVID-19 containment measures in Germany. By assessing the treatment effect on unemployment via difference-in-difference estimation, we find that 60% of the considerably incre…
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Six month follow-up of self-reported loss of smell during the COVID-19 pandemic Open
INTRODUCTION: Loss of smell and taste is now recognised as amongst the most common symptoms of COVID-19 and the best predictor of COVID-19 positivity. Long term outcomes are unknown. This study aims to investigate recovery of loss of smell…
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Job Changing and the Decline in Long-Distance Migration in the United States Open
Interstate migration in the United States has decreased steadily since the 1980s, but little is known about the causes of this decline. We show that declining migration is related to a concurrent secular decline in job changing. Neither tr…
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The Effect of Job Displacement on Couples’ Fertility Decisions Open
This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal register data. We focus on couples where one spouse has lost a job due to a plant closure and follow them for several years before and following th…
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Feeling useless: the effect of unemployment on mental health in the Great Recession Open
This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental distress using data from the Spanish National Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job losses in diffe…
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Hitting Rock Bottom After Job Loss: Bouncing Back to Create a New Positive Work Identity Open
Although people often value work identities, events sometimes threaten these identities, creating situations where individuals struggle to overcome the identity threat. Building on the theories of identity and escape from self, we develop …
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Way Down in the Hole: Adaptation to Long-Term Water Loss in Rural India Open
Worsening environmental conditions threaten to undermine progress in reducing rural poverty. Little is known, however, about the prospects for farmer adaptations to mitigate this threat, in particular through opportunities for income diver…
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Differences in horizontal and vertical mismatches across countries and fields of study Open
Based on early career data on graduates in Europe and Japan, the authors investigate whether full job mismatch (i.e. field‐of‐study mismatch and over‐education), mere horizontal mismatch and mere vertical mismatch can be explained by diffe…
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Intimate Partner Violence: The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women Open
This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty-one developing countries, from 2005 to 2016. It finds that a 1 percent increase in the male unemployment rat…
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COVID-19 Is Having a Devastating Impact on the Economic Well-being of Latino Families Open
Latino Americans are more likely than non-Hispanic whites to contract COVID-19 and to face disproportionately high mortality rates when they contract the virus. What has not been well understood is the impact COVID-19 is having on the econ…
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Turn Digitalization and Automation to a Job Resource Open
My aim with this commentary is to discuss my vision on what will determine its impact, building on Parker and Grote (2020). To my view, digitalization and automation can contribute to stimulating and “healthy” jobs, if (a) they are designe…
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All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage Open
We study how promotions to top jobs affect the probability of divorce. We compare the relationship trajectories of winning and losing candidates for mayor and parliamentarian and find that a promotion to one of these jobs doubles the basel…
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Review on Economic Loss Assessment of Power Outages Open
Power outage accidents will cause huge economic loss to the social economy. Therefore, it is very important to evaluate the economic loss of power outages. By summarizing the existing literature, this paper summarizes the economic impact c…
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The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil Open
We investigate the impact of job loss on crime and the mitigating role of unemployment benefits, exploiting detailed individual‐level data linking employment careers, criminal records, and welfare registries for the universe of male worker…
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The Heterogeneous Labor Market Impacts Of the Covid-19 Pandemic Open
We study the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic's impacts on employment. Using CPS data on stocks and flows, we show that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Although employment losses have been widesp…
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Searching for Job Security and the Consequences of Job Loss Open
Job loss comes with large present value earnings losses which elude workhorse models of unemployment and labor market policy. I propose a parsimonious model of a frictional labor market in which jobs differ in terms of unemployment risk an…
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Job Loss in the Great Recession and its Aftermath: U.S. Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey Open
The Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009 is associated with a dramatic weakening of the labor market from which, by some measures, it has not completely recovered.I use data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2014…
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Association of job loss, income loss, and financial burden with adverse mental health outcomes during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in Thailand: A nationwide cross‐sectional study Open
Economic burden, especially self-reported financial problems, was associated with adverse mental health outcomes. However, long-term studies are needed to address the mental health consequences of COVID-19 and economic downturns.
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The geographical impact of the Covid-19 crisis on precautionary savings, firm survival and jobs: Evidence from the United Kingdom’s 100 largest towns and cities Open
In this commentary, we trace the economic and spatial consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of potential business failure and the associated job losses across the 100 largest cities and towns in the United Kingdom (UK). The articl…
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Where do journalists go after newsroom job cuts? Open
This article explores the aftermath of job loss in journalism in 2012, a year of dramatic press industry restructuring in Australia. It reports the findings of a pilot survey of 95 Australian redundant journalists, undertaken as part of th…
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Job loss and the mental health of spouses and adolescent children Open
Panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey are used to examine the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of spouses and adolescent children. Estimates from fixed effects models show that the…
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How do regional economies respond to crises? The geography of job creation and destruction in Sweden (1990–2010) Open
Using Swedish longitudinal micro-data, the aim of this paper is to analyse how regional economies respond to crises. This is made possible by linking gross employment flows to the notion of regional resilience. Our findings indicate that d…