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) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment …
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The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … benefit duration on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes. We find a spike in the re-employment hazard for the …
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. This critical value decreases with unemployment benefits and increases with workers' risk aversion. We also show that in … some countries the benefits for long-term unemployed are so low that workers would probably prefer that the minimum wage …
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"Contrary to widespread belief, we show that low-pay workers might not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor demand such that increases in the minimum wage rate...
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To finance unemployment insurance, states raise payroll tax rates on employers who engage in layoffs. Tax rates are … tax schedule. Tax hikes reduce hiring and employment substantially, with no effect on layoffs or wages. The results imply … unemployment in the wake of the Great Recession. …
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We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and … as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively …
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We examine employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Norway during the initial lockdown, through the subsequent … pandemic, both the level and the socioeconomic composition of employment quickly returned to normal. In contrast, we find … considerable negative long-term employment effects on people who were non-employed when the crisis hit. We argue that these …
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In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by … the outflow rate, which is consistent with a regime with strict employment protection legislation. In Spain, however, both …
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We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source the National Establishment Time Series … (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying employment dynamics, including tracking business … full decomposition of employment change into its six constituent processes, including job creation and destruction stemming …
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