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Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...

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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective

Sahin, Afsin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, Hakan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with...

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Equilibrium Unemployment and Retirement

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Zylberberg, Andre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

not; the existence of search externalities makes the retirement age of unemployed workers intrinsically suboptimal …

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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...

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Determinants of Transitions across Formal / Informal Sectors in Egypt

Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We first provide a diagnosis of dynamic worker flows...

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The Cyclicality of Labor Market Flows: A Multiple-Shock Approach

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Zhutova, Anastasia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

a shock to the efficiency of the matching process (search shock). The two former shocks generate a quite balanced … model capture the possible shifts in the three conditions determining labor market equilibrium in any matching models … contribution of the two transition rates to the volatility of unemployment, whereas the search shock implies a disproportionate …

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

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The Cyclicality of the Separation and Job Finding Rates in France

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper, we aim to shed light on the relative contribution of the separation and job finding rates to French unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on registered unemployment and labor force surveys. We first investigate the fluctuations in steady state...

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Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment by Economic Activity: Evidence from Turkey

Berument, Hakan; Dogan, Nukhet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence on the differential responses of the unemployment by sectors of economic activity. Our paper extends the previous work in two respects. First, we consider not only the response...

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Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …

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