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When short-time work works
Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018
Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...
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Is short-time work a good method to keep unemployment down?
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - 2011
2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …-rating component. -- short-time work ; unemployment ; employment …
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The roots of low European employment : family culture?
Algan, Yann (contributor); Cahuc, Pierre (contributor) - 2005
OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labor supply...
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The heterogeneous impact of short-time work: from saved jobs to windfall effects
Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2021
Paid family leave allows workers to take time off from work to care for a family member with a serious health condition, with reduced financial risk and increased job continuity. In 2004, California was the first state in the nation to implement a paid family leave program allowing workers to...
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Employed and unemployed job seekers : are they substitutes?
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark P. - 2011
unemployed do not directly compete with employed job seekers. -- on-the-job search ; unemployment ; job competition ; employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310066
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Couples' labour supply responses to job loss : boom and recession compared
Bryan, Mark L.; Longhi, Simonetta - 2013
of job losses, suggesting that unemployment typically comes as a surprise. …
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