The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation
Christoph Albert, Paula Bustos and Jacopo Ponticelli study the experience of Brazil to provide direct evidence on how capital and labor adjust to changes in climate.
Topic Archive: Labor Economics
How the minimum wage has affected intergenerational health in Indonesia
Farhan Majid, Jere R. Behrman, and Hanna Wang study the effect of minimum wages on the health of parents and children in low-and-middle-income countries.
Human capital destruction during unemployment decreases participation
Francesc Obiols-Homs and Virginia Sánchez-Marcos perform a quantitative evaluation of various channels proposed at explaining the decline in the labor force participation rate and the implications for social policy.
Risk-Sharing and Harmonizing Unemployment Benefits to Strengthen European Integration
As Jean Monnet, recognized, often it takes a crisis for the EU to move ahead. This has been the case with the COVID-19 crisis and the launch of the Temporary Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) mechanism providing, for the first time, financial support (loans at convenient conditions) to member states to…
