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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market differences in the U.S.
De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019
in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
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The ins and outs of involuntary part-time employment
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2018
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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Job duration and match characteristics over the business cycle
Baydur, Ismail; Mukoyama, Toshihiko - 2020
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The self-employment option in rigid labor markets : an empirical investigation
Garcia-Cabo, Joaquin; Madera, Rocio - 2019
workers’ outside options. We document the negative selection into self-employment when workers enter from unemployment, and … contract out of unemployment. These facts call for a revision of active labor market policies in place …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126166
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Macroeconomic Shocks and Racial Labour Market Differences in the U.S.
De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019
increase in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179803
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Unemployment protection for informal workers in Latin America and the Caribbean
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Sarzosa, Miguel - 2013
-employment to analyze the implications of introducing universal unemployment protection for informal workers through transfers …, which are conditional on participation in training programs. We study how changes in unemployment benefits (UB) for … increasing training UB reduces unprotected unemployment and improves labor market outcomes through higher formal salaried …
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Does high home-ownership impair the labor market?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2013
-ownership rate in a U.S. state are a precursor to eventual sharp rises in unemployment in that state. The elasticity exceeds unity: a … unemployment rate. What mechanisms might explain this? We provide evidence that rises in home-ownership are associated with three …
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Wages and wedges in an estimated labor search model
Chahrour, Ryan; Chugh, Sanjay K. - 2014
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Firm dynamics, on-the-job search, and labor market fluctuations
Elsby, Michael W. L.; Gottfries, Axel - In: The review of economic studies : RES 89 (2022) 3, pp. 1370-1419
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The German labor market during the Great Recession : shocks and institutions
Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2017
This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...
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