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Employment Adjustment and Part-Time Jobs : The U.S. and the U.K. In the Great Recession
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 2016
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...
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What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?
Haefke, Christian - 2011
participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the variability of unemployment and participation, and the negative … correlation of unemployment and GDP, implies an aggregate labor supply elasticity along the extensive margin of around 0.3 for men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119024
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Coming to America : Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009
This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...
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The Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States : The Long View, 1948–2013
Fraumeni, Barbara - 2020
Over the 1948–2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete national income accounting system which integrates Jorgenson-Fraumeni human capital into the...
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The Evolution of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Labor Market : The Complete Picture of Gross Worker Flows
Lalé, Etienne - 2016
The U.S. labor market experienced a more than 20 percent reduction in the share of workers holding multiple jobs over the past 20 years. While this substantial trend is receiving increasing attention, the literature lacks a comprehensive picture of the gross worker flows that underlie the...
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Hours Worked in Europe and the US : New Data, New Answers
Bick, Alexander - 2016
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
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The Effects of Large Universal Child Benefits on Female Labour Supply
Magda, Iga - 2018
In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...
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Worker absenteeism in search equilibrium
Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …
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Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?
Guner, Nezih - 2020
The added worker effect (AWE) measures the entry of individuals into the labor force due to their partners' job loss. We propose a new method to calculate the AWE, which allows us to estimate its effect on any labor market outcome. We show that the AWE reduces the fraction of households with two...
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Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of U.S. Unemployment Rates
Feng, Shuaizhang - 2010
Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …
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