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procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which does indeed … generate countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …
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I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …
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present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …
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"From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...
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heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …
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conventional measure of the unemployment rate (that is, the number of individuals who are not working at all and actively searching … working part time who want a full-time job) and the extent of hidden unemployment (that is, people who are not actively ….S. labor market slack and show that underemployment and hidden unemployment currently account for the bulk of the U …
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This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine retirement and related labor market outcomes for the Early Boomer cohort, those in their mid-fifties at the onset of the Great Recession. Outcomes are then compared with older cohorts at the same age. The Great Recession...
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Four years after the beginning of the Great Recession, the labor market remains historically weak. Many observers have concluded that "structural" impediments to recovery bear some of the blame. This paper reviews such structural explanations. I find that there is little evidence supporting...
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the ease with which individuals can move between employment, unemployment and inactivity over time. The results suggest … countries. Nonetheless, transitions from unemployment and inactivity back into the labour market are relatively weak in the euro … remaining in unemployment over two consecutive periods decreased in Sweden, the euro area, and,to a lesser extent, Denmark …
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High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
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