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We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...
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In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...
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We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...
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unemployment. Spells of involuntary part-time work are different from unemployment spells: a full-time worker who takes on a part … unemployment risk alongside an additional risk of involuntary part-time employment. A calibration of the model consistent with U … unemployment. This finding relies critically on the much higher probability to return to full-time employment from part-time work …
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We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...
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reverse transition probability. We compare the dynamics of unemployment and involuntary part-time employment to argue that … they reflect the operation of distinct labor-adjustment channels. While unemployment dynamics are driven by movements in …
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