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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524624
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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500194
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Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2012
unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500218
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Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Chakraborty, Indraneel; Holter, Hans A.; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321445
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Labor-force participation rates and the informal value of unemployment rates: Evidence from disaggregated US data
Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - 2010
The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned because of a unit root in … the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are … highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in joblessness. This paper shows that this critique also extends to unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321459
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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom
Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017
unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646817
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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market differences in the U.S.
De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019
in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157899
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Pay and unemployment determinants of migration flows in the European Union
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof - 2022
-2019 period, we use Bayesian Model Averaging and quantile regression to assess notably the relevance of unemployment and earnings …. Moreover, one percentage point increase in the difference in the unemployment rate is associated with an increase in net …
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Okun in the euro : new evidence from structural Okun law’s estimates for the euro area, 1979-2019
Campos, Nauro; Macchiarelli, Corrado; Mitropoulos, Fotios - 2024
This paper provides new estimates of Okun’s unemployment-output relationship in euro area countries between 1979 and … characterise the literature and that the responsiveness of output to unemployment is driven by idiosyncratic factors in both euro …
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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015
Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...
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