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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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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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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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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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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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The ins and outs of involuntary part-time employment

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2018

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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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Search and multiple jobholding

Lalé, Etienne - 2019

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On the evolution of multiple jobholding in Canada

Kostyshyna, Olena; Lalé, Etienne - 2019

The number of workers who hold more than one job (a.k.a. multiple jobholders) has increased recently in Canada. While this seems to echo the view that non-standard work arrangements are becoming pervasive, the increase has in fact been trivial compared with the long-run rise of multiple...

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