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allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 … search process than the unemployed. Thus, we show that, rather than contributing to unemployment, creative destruction …
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This paper illustrates why fiscal policy becomes more effective as unemployment rises in recessions. The theory is … based on the equilibrium unemployment model of Michaillat (forthcoming), in which jobs are rationed in recessions. Fiscal …; therefore fiscal policy reduces unemployment effectively. Formally the fiscal multiplier—the reduction in unemployment rate …
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Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market … states act as key determinants of this variation. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical … over the last 35 years, we decompose unemployment variation into parts accounted for by changes in rates of job loss, job …
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. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …
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Average unemployment in Europe today is relatively high compared with OECD countries outside Europe. The majority of … countries in Europe today have lower unemployment than any OECD country outside Europe, including the US. These two fa cts are …), have very high unemployment and most of the rest have comparatively low unemployment. This variability is highly …
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creation in the private sector and unemployment. We also show that long-term unemployment depends on current and past values of … short-term unemployment and that this path-dependence fades away as soon as we reach time t-3. We interpret this result as …
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Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labour market during economic downturns suffer from poor job matches that have a sustained detrimental effect on their wages and career...
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,000 children into adulthood, we show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental health and life satisfaction is almost four … times larger for workers who had been bullied a lot in their early life. We also find zero adaptation to unemployment for …
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Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...
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-dimensional process. Age ten conduct disorder predicts male adult unemployment particularly well but it is self-esteem that predicts male …
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