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I examine the extent to which workers who lose jobs find work in alternative employment arrangements including temporary work and independent contracting and find part-time work, both voluntary and involuntary. The analysis is based on data from the Displaced Worker Supplements (DWS) and the...
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unemployment over the last three decades. We find that while macroeconomic and demographic shocks and changing labor market … important factor explaining the shift in US relative unemployment. Our finding of the central importance of these interactions … relative unemployment has fallen in recent years in part because its more flexible labor market institutions allow shocks to …
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taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …
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the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the … impact of technical change on relative wages and unemployment in a world in which one country has flexible and the other …
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unemployment. The sample of approximately 15,000 observations is drawn from the 1988 Alcohol Survey of the National Health …
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from unemployment to income inequality. It makes three points: 1) The U.S. has incarcerated an extraordinarily high …
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Two key attributes of a job are its wage and its duration. Much has been made of changes in the wage distribution in the 1980s, but little attention has been given to job durations since Hall (1982). We fill this void by examining the temporal evolution of job retention rates in U.S. labor...
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. Government incentives to production may alleviate high unemployment in this economy, but at the cost of exacerbating sclerosis …
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There is a broad consensus among US opinion leaders that our economic problem is largely one of failures of international competition -- that trade deficits have eroded our manufacturing base, that inability to sell on world markets has been a major drag on economic growth, and that imports from...
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