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THE EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE OF THE UNEMPLOYED

Jenkins, Glenn; GLENDAY, GRAHAM - Economics Department, Queen's University - 1981

This study examines the employment experience of workers in Canada who were unemployed at some point during the period … Canada. From this data a history of the employment experience of individuals during the time they were in labour force is … 1972 through 1979. The employment-unemployment experience of workers over this eight-year period was derived from a data …

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PATTERNS OF DURATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT

Jenkins, Glenn; GLENDAY, GRAHAM - Economics Department, Queen's University - 1981

This study examines the durations of unemployment and employment for those in Canada who experience some unemployment … made with observed rather than estimated durations of employment/unemployment spells for the first time in Canada. …

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Lost in Transition: The Costs and Consequences of Sectoral Labour Adjustment

Tapp, Stephen - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2007

inability to transfer match-specific skills to new jobs. I apply the model to examine Canada's sectoral labour adjustment after … production to the resource sector and away from manufacturing. The model quantitatively captures both the sectoral employment and …

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The Dynamics of Sectoral Labour Adjustment

Tapp, Stephen - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2007

This paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model to jointly study the aggregate, sectoral, and distributional impacts of labour adjustment. The model extends Pissarides (2000) to include multisector production and search and "innovation" from investments that can potentially improve...

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I - Q Cycles

Francois, Patrick; Lloyd-Ellis, Huw - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2005

We develop a model of "intrinsic" business cycles, driven by the decentralized behaviour of entrepreneurs and firms making continuous, divisible improvements in their productivity. We show how equilibrium cycles, associated with strategic delays in implementation and endogenous innovation, arise...

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Schumpeterian Restructuring

Francois, Patrick; Lloyd-Ellis, Huw - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2005

fluctuations in job creation on the intensive margin are the dominant source of changes in employment growth. Our framework also …

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Intrinsic Business Cycles with Pro-Cyclical R&D

Francois, Patrick; Lloyd-Ellis, Huw - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2006

Recent empirical work finds that R&D expenditures are quite procyclical, even for firms that are not redit-constrained during downturns. This has been taken as strong evidence against Schumpeterian-style theories of business cycles that emphasize the idea that downturns in production may be good...

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Accounting for Racial Differences in Marriage and Employment

Seitz, Shannon N. - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2002

The extent to which marriage market conditions explain differences in marriage and employment decisions across blacks …

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Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon; Smith, Jeffrey - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2003

employment. The model incorporates the main features of many unemployment insurance and welfare programs, including eligibility …

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Evaluating Search and Matching Models Using Experimental Data

Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon; Smith, Jeffrey - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2006

earnings supplement for Income Assistance recipients who obtain full time employment within a 12 month period. We find two …

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