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Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Adjusting Labor Along The Intensive Margins

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....

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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?

Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …

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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies

Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

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Spending and Job-Finding Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits : Evidence from Administrative Micro Data

Ganong, Peter; Greig, Fiona E.; Noel, Pascal J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity

Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization …

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Countries for Old Men : An Analysis of the Age Pay Gap

Bianchi, Nicola; Paradisi, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This study investigates the growing wage disparity between older and younger workers in high-income countries. We propose a conceptual framework of the labor market in which firms cannot change the contracts of older employees and cannot freely add higher-ranked positions to their organizations....

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Labor Market Externalities of Pre-retirement Employment Protection

Chrostek, Paweł; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment protection legislation (EPL) targeted towards older workers. Our results show no economically meaningful overall effects of the EPL on employment or earnings of either men or...

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A Tractable Income Process for Business Cycle Analysis

Guvenen, Fatih; McKay, Alisdair; Ryan, Conor B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate an income process that is consistent with key facts on individual income risk and its variation over the business cycle. In particular, the estimated process generates income fluctuations that display (i) flat and acyclical variance, (ii) volatile and procyclical skewness, (iii) very...

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