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The path through : early COVID-19 job loss and labour market trajectories in Austria

Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2024

the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …

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Labor Force Participation and Monetary Policy in the Wake of the Great Recession

Erceg, Christopher J. - 2014

In this paper, we provide compelling evidence that cyclical factors account for the bulk of thepost-2007 decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate. We then proceed to formulate astylized New Keynesian model in which labor force participation is essentially acyclical during“normal...

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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK

Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022

suggests that increased inactivity among older workers, the so called She-cession (particularly in the US) and shifting worker …

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Can Women Save Japan?

Steinberg, Chad - 2012

Japan's potential growth rate is steadily falling with the aging of its population. This paper explores the extent to which raising female labor participation can help slow this trend. Using a cross-country database we find that smaller families, higher female education, and lower marriage rates...

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How far from full employment? : the European unemployment problem revisited

Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Lichtenberger, Andreas - 2024

Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …

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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU

Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024

This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...

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Full employment : a survey of theory, empirics and policies

Lichtenberger, Andreas; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, … - 2024

unemployment and maximum employment approaches; and the unfilled vacancies perspective. Furthermore, we provide and discuss …

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The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Beyer, Robert - 2016

The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...

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Labor market and macroeconomic dynamics in Latin America amid COVID : the role of digital adoption policies

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Nuguer, Victoria - 2022

, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …

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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and labour market flexibility : an exploratory assessment of contract labour use in India's formal manufacturing

Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Singh, Jaivir - 2015

One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...

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