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additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …
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-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
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-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
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Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States is 'tight' because unemployment rates are low. They …, prior to that, real wages had been stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage …
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and effects of youth unemployment using micro-data. It argues that there is convincing evidence that the young are … particularly susceptible to the negative effects of spells of unemployment well after their initial experience of worklessness …. Because the current youth cohort is relatively large, the longer-term outlook for youth unemployment is quite good, but there …
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-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as case studies, we analyse youth unemployment … using microdata. We argue that there is convincing evidence that the effects of unemployment when young impose costs on … individuals and society well into the future. Though the effects of current policies on youth unemployment are uncertain, there is …
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Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...
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that almost none of the reduction in market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional work at … home. In contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically, reduced market work is largely substituted by … additional time in household production. -- Unemployment ; time use ; household production ; paid work …
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