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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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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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. Institutional variables include employment protection legislation, the structure of wage bargaining, measures describing the tax and … participation rates have been rather stable over the past, the unemployment problem is mainly caused by shortages in labour demand …. Labour demand is expressed by its structural parameters, such as the elasticities of employment to output and factor prices …
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