The Effect of the L'Aquila Earthquake on Labour Market Outcomes

Pietro, Giorgio Di; Mora, Toni

doi:10.1068/c12121r

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“…Much work on disruption due to traumatic events focuses on the mental health of students. Following the 2009 L’Aquilla, Italy earthquake, Di Pierto and Mora ( 2015 ) found students were less likely to complete degrees on time. Causes included relocation and physiological effects from the earthquake which led to PTSD through symptoms such as, “poor concentration, depression, anxiety and insomnia” (p. 63).…”

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Community College Student Perceptions of Remote Learning Shifts Due to COVID-19

Prokes

Housel

2021

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COVID-19 challenged higher education to rapidly shift to remote course delivery. This study surveyed community college students ( N = 356) about their confidence in completing learning related tasks before and after the shift, access to technologies used in in remote learning, and disruptions that impacted their learning. Results indicated notable declines in confidence across all demographics with significant changes in those age 18-21and for those without prior online course experience. Technology use for remote courses was primarily laptops and smartphones. Students reported the most significant changes to work-life balance came through employment changes and mental health issues. Instructional changes were both positive and negative in workload organization, course delivery, communication and technology. Institutions can use this study’s findings to enact contingency planning, expand online and blended course options, refine academic and social support, and allocate resources to mental health.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For this we lean on studies that find that mental health as a cause inhibiting completion following a traumatic event (e.g. Di Pierto and Mora 2015 ; McCarthy and Butler 2003 ). Certainly, colleges and universities should ensure staff are prepared to address issues arising during crises to ensure they can meet student needs.…”

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Community College Student Perceptions of Remote Learning Shifts Due to COVID-19

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Housel

2021

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“…She finds that wages in the agricultural sector increased as the result of the earthquake, this is due to increased demand for labor within sectors that produce non‐tradable goods, which encouraged agricultural workers to move to the construction sector; this increased the marginal product of labor in agriculture which resulted in wage growth. Di Pietro and Mora (), found short run effects in the labor market after 2009 L'Aquila earthquake using DD, they discovered a reduced probability of being employed (first quarter), and a decrease in the likelihood of participating in the labor force (during the three quarters following the disaster).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the literature on natural disasters and labor markets, there are recent developments that are attempting to understand how labor markets are impacted after a natural disaster (Di Pietro & Mora, 2015;Karnani, 2015;Kirchberger, 2017), but not necessarily focused on labor informality. Kirchberger (2017) studies the impact of the Indonesia earthquake (2006) on the labor market at a sectoral level.…”

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Natural Disasters and Informality: Are local labor markets impacted after an earthquake?

Mendoza

Jara

2020

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This article studies the probability of being part of informal labor markets after a natural disaster. We consider different concepts of labor market informality and use empirical definitions for employment in the informal sector and informal employment. Since the Ecuadorian earthquake may be considered a natural experiment, we perform a two stage identification strategy using both coarsened exact matching (CEM), and nonlinear difference in differences (DD) using individual panel data. We use a fully exogenous measurement of intensity (Peak Ground Acceleration, PGA), which is continuous, and has not been subject to possible arbitrariness in its definition. We found that the earthquake had a positive effect in the likelihood of being part of informal sector if workers are located in the affected areas; we also identified significant gender differences, since a causal effect for men was found, but not for women. When we use the concept of informality based in jobs (informal employment) instead of companies (informal sector), no robust evidence of a causal effect was found. Our results suggest that the government's reconstruction efforts could had attenuated the effect of the disaster over informality in the most affected zones.

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“…On April 6th, 2009 L’Aquila, a city in Central Italy, was destroyed by a violent earthquake, measuring up to 5.9 MI on the Richter scale, which killed 309 people and injured about 1,600 individuals (Galluccio, 2014). About 90 percent of the residents of L’Aquila were evacuated from their homes (Di Pietro and Mora, 2015); some of them directed to tent camps and others in tourist accommodations in hotels on the Adriatic coast, waiting for the CASE project[1] (Fois and Forino, 2014).…”

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Work as a recovery factor after earthquake: a mixed-method study on female workers

Galanti

Cortini

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reaction of female workers to the earthquake event that shocked the city of L’Aquila in April 2009, with a specific focus on work as a recovery factor. Design/methodology/approach The selected sample consists of current or former resident women in the affected province of L’Aquila, who participated in a series of focus group discussions on the ability to reconstruct their own professional identity after the earthquake. The focus group seemed to be the perfect instrument for this research, because of its ability to generate a true discussion among a group of people on the research topic of this study. The collected data were analyzed both in terms of metaphors, as well as linguistic agentivity and by automatic content analysis. Findings From the analysis of the data, emerges the value that adds to the sense of identity continuity for the women in the sample, together with interesting differences between employed and self-employed workers that are characterized by distinct challenges and assurances. In regards to the effects of gender in response to disaster events, the results make a peculiar echo to the studies on public-private space dichotomy developed by Fordham, according to which, during a disaster, women are not allowed to develop work-related desires. For the group of women that the authors interviewed, the challenge to have family focused or work focused desires was clearly evident; they seem predetermined to the above-mentioned dichotomy, valid in both directions: the women who invested in work and have become entrepreneurs seem to have no chance of a private life and, on the contrary, the women who were focused on more traditional family roles seem to have no chance in terms of job opportunities. Originality/value Based on the authors’ knowledge this is the first time that focus groups are used to assess the value that work had in supporting individual recovery for women in the aftermath of the L’Aquila earthquake.

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The Effect of the L'Aquila Earthquake on Labour Market Outcomes

Cited by 18 publications

References 43 publications

Community College Student Perceptions of Remote Learning Shifts Due to COVID-19

Community College Student Perceptions of Remote Learning Shifts Due to COVID-19

Natural Disasters and Informality: Are local labor markets impacted after an earthquake?

Work as a recovery factor after earthquake: a mixed-method study on female workers

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