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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Recalls, Retirements, and Reallocation in the COVID Recovery

Forsythe, Eliza; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian; Wiczer, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

At the onset of the COVID pandemic, the U.S. economy suddenly and swiftly lost 20 million jobs. Over the next two years, the economy has been on the recovery path. We assess the labor market two years into the COVID crisis. We show that early employment dynamics were almost entirely driven by...

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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs

Bulman, Tim - 2020

picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …

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Bonus Question : Does Flexible Incentive Pay Dampen Unemployment Dynamics?

Gaur, Meghana; Grigsby, John R.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of unemployment dynamics and present three results. First, wage … cyclicality from incentives does not dampen unemployment dynamics: the response of unemployment to shocks is first … cyclicality from bargaining dampens unemployment dynamics through the standard mechanism. Third, our calibrated model suggests 46 …

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Boosting productivity in Russia : skills, education and innovation

Demmou, Lilas; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2015

education are unequally distributed. Adequate funding for education institutions is not assured everywhere while inefficiencies …

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Why do Russian firms use fixed-term and agency work contracts?

Smirnykh, Larisa; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2013

may also help to prevent a larger increase in unemployment during crisis periods. …

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Understanding declining fluidity in the U.S. labor market

Molloy, Raven S.; Smith, Christopher L.; Trezzi, Riccardo; … - 2016

We document a clear downward trend in labor market fluidity that is common across a variety of measures of worker and job turnover. This trend dates to at least the early 1980s if not somewhat earlier. Next we pull together evidence on a variety of hypotheses that might explain this downward...

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Labour market reform for more and better quality jobs in Italy

Jin, Yosuke; Lenain, Patrick - 2015

cohesive society. In Italy, the various deficiencies of the labour market have resulted in high unemployment, low labour force …-designed institutions, not only labour market policies but also the education system and product market regulation, would encourage higher …

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The macro-dynamics of sorting between workers and firms

Lise, Jeremy; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2013

We develop an equilibrium model of on-the-job search with ex-ante heterogeneous workers and firms, aggregate uncertainty and vacancy creation. The model produces rich dynamics in which the distributions of unemployed workers, vacancies and worker-firm matches evolve stochastically over time. We...

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Why are some U.S. cities successful, while others are not? : empirical evidence from machine learning

Azzopardi, Damien; Fareed, Fozan; Lenain, Patrick; … - 2020

tracking their job mobility rate, unemployment rate, income growth, population increase, net change in job-to-job mobility and …

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The decline in labour mobility in the United States : insights from new administrative data

Azzopardi, Damien; Fareed, Fozan; Hermansen, Mikkel Nørlem - 2020

Job mobility is essential for a well-functioning market economy and for individual workers to boost their wages. This paper provides a re-assessment of job mobility in the United States during 2000-2018, based on a novel administrative data source covering almost all workers and job flows....

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