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The Cyclicality of the Separation and Job Finding Rates in France

Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2012

unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on registered unemployment and labor force surveys. We … first investigate the fluctuations in steady state unemployment, and then in current unemployment in order to take into … account the unemployment deviations from equilibrium. Our results show the dominant role of the job finding rate in accounting …

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Public employment redux

Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 1 (2021), pp. 1-32

The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model with a perfectly competitive private sector, and non-Walrasian public sector. Our economy also features heterogeneity across individuals and jobs, and a simple sorting mechanism that...

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Money for nothing? Universal child care and maternal employment

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009

The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country differences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...

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Money for nothing? Universal child care and maternal employment

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009

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Public Employment Redux

Garibaldi, Pietro - 2020

The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. Using US microdata, we show that the education bias also holds within industries and in two thirds of 3-digit occupations. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model of private and public employment based on two features....

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Public employment redux

Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2019

Most of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of family leave policies comes from studies focusing on their impacts on affected families - that is, mothers, fathers, and their children - without a clear understanding of the costs and effects on firms and coworkers. We use data from Denmark...

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