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Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?

Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2016

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

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The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-Time Employment

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2018

We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...

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Life-Cycle Worker Flows and Cross-Country Differences in Aggregate Employment

Créchet, Jonathan; Lalé, Etienne; Tarasonis, Linas - 2024

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …

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Assessing Labor Market Conditions in Canada with Public-Use Microdata

Lalé, Etienne - 2024

Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … of job search from inactivity compared to unemployment. This factor provides enough structure to prevent arbitrary … splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a …

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The Evolution of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Labor Market: The Complete Picture of Gross Worker Flows

Lalé, Etienne - 2016

The U.S. labor market experienced a more than 20 percent reduction in the share of workers holding multiple jobs over the past 20 years. While this substantial trend is receiving increasing attention, the literature lacks a comprehensive picture of the gross worker flows that underlie the...

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Search and Multiple Jobholding

Lalé, Etienne - 2019

A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...

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Employment Adjustment and Part-time Jobs: The U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2016

We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...

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International labour force participation rates by gender: Unit root or structural breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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Are labor force participation rates really non-stationary? Evidence from three OECD countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2012

unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. …

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Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers

Lalé, Etienne - 2016

This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …

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