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decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis …This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European …
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stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labor market …The Canadian labor market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic …. We analyze the main changes using standard labor force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of …
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European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed … reductions in taxes sufficiently large to offset any effects of diminishing returns to labor. The second part of the paper …
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. In this paper, we examine the impact of labor market conditions, represented by either male civilian unemployment or …. Those studies, however, have not established a definitive understanding of the effects of labor market conditions on crime … labor force participation rates, on seven major categories of crime, using the quarterly crime-rate data for the United …
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evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the …) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual … labor market-crime and the sanctions-crime relations. It concludes that there is a labor market-crime link but that this …
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We use traditional and non-traditional data to measure the collapse and partial recovery of the U.S. labor market from … from the Paycheck Protection Program and states with more generous unemployment insurance benefits had milder declines and …
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We revisit the hypothesis that cyclical fluctuations in unemployment are caused by shocks to the discount rate. We use … a rich search-theoretic model of the labor market in which the UE, EU and EE rates are all endogenous. Analytically, we … in the EU rate. The response of the unemployment rate is minuscule. These findings are at odds with the actual behavior …
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the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to … employed than native men. The COVID-related labor market disruptions eliminated the immigrant employment advantage. By April …
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We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are … implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 6th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …
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