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state-level initial unemployment insurance claims, changes in the unemployment rate, and changes in private employment. The … manufacturing employment in real time …
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response of employment to a technology shock. We find that labor market frictions account for the fall in labor inputs. …
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We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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States with socialist economic systems also suffer from employment problems, a fact which is frequently passed over in …
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country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …
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As a measure of labor market strength, the raw employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) confounds employment outcomes with … labor supply behavior. Movement in the EPOP depends on the relative movements of the employment rate (one minus the … unemployment rate) and the labor force participation rate. This paper proposes an adjustment to the calculation of the EPOP using …
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transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …
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