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Has the Dutch miracle come to an end?
Ours, Jan C. van - 2003
In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507711
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COVID-19 and employment in South Korea: trends and comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis
Nam, Minhyuk; Lee, Soohyung - 2021
decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431574
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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978325
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Terrorism and Employment : Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks
Brodeur, Abel - 2015
This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local economies. I rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2013 in the U.S. and exploit the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011133
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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium
Clark, Andrew E. - 2009
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269197
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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium
Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2009
recent years. -- Employment ; unemployment ; self-employment ; life satisfaction ; job quality ; job satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794111
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099116
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The Effects of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment and Labor Force Participation : Evidence from 35 Years of Benefits Extensions
Figura, Andrew - 2015
This paper presents estimates of the effect of emergency and extended unemployment benefits (EEB) on the unemployment … ineligible for EEB back to the late 1970s. To identify these estimates, we examine how exit rates from unemployment change across … different points of the distribution of unemployment duration when EEB is and is not available, controlling for changes in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032426
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Unpacking the post-lockdown employment recovery of young women in the Global South
Scott, Douglas; Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, … - 2021
This paper analyses the difference in short-term employment recovery between young men and women in India, Peru and Vietnam following the national lockdowns imposed in all three countries during 2020. We employ a mediation model to establish whether - and to what extent - commonly suggested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697798
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Has the Dutch Miracle Come to an End?
van Ours, Jan C. - 2021
In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319989