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Individuals' Unemployment Experiences: Heterogeneity and Business Cycle Effects
Kalwij, Adriaan S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This study examines individuals’ unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals’ unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763923
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Individuals' Unemployment Durations over the Business Cycle
Kalwij, Adriaan S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Diamond (1994) that an individual’s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703013
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Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment
Mueller, Andreas I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper establishes a new fact about the compositional changes in the pool of unemployed over the U.S. business cycle and evaluates a number of theories that can potentially explain it. Using micro-data from the Current Population Survey for the years 1962-2011, it documents that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575480
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Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles
Burda, Michael C.; Weder, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance … volatility and persistence of vacancies and unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611305
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The European Phillips Curve: Does the NAIRU Exist?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566739
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A Reappraisal of the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff
Snower, Dennis; Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761764
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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262730
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Flight of the H-1B: Inter-Firm Mobility and Return Migration Patterns for Skilled Guest Workers
Depew, Briggs; Norlander, Peter; Sorensen, Todd A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Critics of the H-1B program for high-skilled workers argue that the program restricts immigrant job mobility and lacks a vehicle for adjusting the number of visas during a recession. We study the job mobility of highly-skilled Indian IT guest workers and provide new evidence on their inter-firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959611
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Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key
Jetter, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959641
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The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Ward, George W.; De Keulenaer, Femke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? Using subjective well-being data, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are experienced. We find that measures of life satisfaction and affect are more than twice as sensitive to...
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