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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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Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
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In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed …
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unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …
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We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
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non-OECD countries. The findings suggest that the quality of institutions matters to a large extent for economic outcomes …
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in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
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-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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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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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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