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The Ins and Outs of Unemployment : The Ins Win

Darby, Michael R. - 1986

This paper develops a framework for analyzing unemployment in terms of …distribution of the inflow Into unemployment are the primary determinant of …drive the recession. In contrast to normal unemployment, cyclical unemployment …

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Unemployment-Rate Dynamics and Persistent Unemployment Under Rational Expectations

Darby, Michael R. - 1985

This paper develops a model of unemployment rate dynamics that provides an explanation of persistent cyclical … unemployment that does not involve persistent expectational errors or other nonoptimizing behavior. Our results are based on the … comprise the bulk of normal unemployment and a larger group of low turnover individuals who dominate movements in cyclical …

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The Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment : Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2016

unemployment they have experienced (state dependence). We use Current Population Survey (CPS) data on unemployed individuals linked … outcomes. Even with these controls in place, we find that unemployment duration has a strongly negative effect on the … explanation for the negative association between unemployment duration and subsequent employment rates. We also find that longer …

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Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness : The Role of Spatial Mismatch

Andersson, Fredrik - 2014

accessibility to appropriate jobs should shorten the duration of unemployment. We focus on lower-income workers with strong labor …

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Job Displacement and Job Mobility : The Role of Joblessness

Fallick, Bruce; Haltiwanger, John C.; McEntarfer, Erika; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Who is harmed by and who benefits from worker reallocation? We investigate the earnings consequences of changing jobs and find a wide dispersion in outcomes. This dispersion is driven not by whether the worker was displaced, but by the duration of joblessness between job spells. Job movers who...

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Changing Business Dynamism and Productivity : Shocks vs. Responsiveness

Decker, Ryan A. - 2018

The pace of job reallocation has declined in all U.S. sectors since 2000. In standard models, aggregate job reallocation depends on (a) the dispersion of idiosyncratic productivity shocks faced by businesses and (b) the marginal responsiveness of businesses to those shocks. Using several novel...

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Recruiting Intensity during and after the Great Recession : National and Industry Evidence

Davis, Steven J. - 2012

We measure job-filling rates and recruiting intensity per vacancy at the national and industry levels from January 2001 to September 2011 using data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. Construction makes up less than 5 percent of employment but accounts for more than 40 percent of...

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Labor Market Flows in the Cross Section and Over Time

Davis, Steven J. - 2011

Many theoretical models of labor market search imply a tight link between worker flows (hires and separations) and job gains and losses at the employer level. Partly motivated by these theories, we exploit establishment-level data from U.S. sources to study the relationship between worker flows...

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Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2009

Using a large data set that links individual Current Population Survey (CPS) records to employer-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling for known definitional differences between the two data...

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Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in JOLTS

Davis, Steven J. - 2008

We develop and implement a method to improve estimates of worker flows and job openings based on the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). Our method involves reweighting the cross-sectional density of employment growth rates in JOLTS to match the corresponding density in the...

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