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The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-time Employment

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2018

We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...

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Konjunkturanalyse for Bornholm, 1987 til 1996. Kapitel 3: arbejdsmarkedet på Bornholm 1987 til 1996

Lund, Lars - 2001

of unemployment and wages or wage incomes. Participation rates and migrations are also touched upon. An expectation that … equilibrium values of relative wages and rates of unemployment after a business cycle. …

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Moral costs, the informal sector and unemployment

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001

, sector division, unemployment and welfare. …

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Consumption Dynamics under Time-Varying Unemployment Risk

Harmenberg, Karl; Ôberg, Erik - 2019

Private consumption demand falls in response to increased unemployment risk during a recession, as households increase … unemployment risk is more important than realized unemployment shocks in accounting for durable expenditure dynamics during … recessions, while the opposite is true for nondurables. The importance of anticipation of future unemployment risk also means …

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Can insider power affect employment?

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....

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The caring hand that cripples: The East Germany labour market after reunification

Snower, Dennis J.; Merkl, Christian - 2006

, and unemployment arising from the decline of the tradeable sector. …

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An incentive theory of matching

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...

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Monetary persistence and the labor market: A new perspective

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010

sluggish. Job creation and job destruction are negatively correlated. And the volatility of unemployment is much larger than in …

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Underground Activities and Labour Market Performance

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2018

We build a general equilibrium model in terms of a search and matching model with an informal sector. We consider the impact of the traditional policy instruments considered in the tax evasion literature, such as changes in the tax- and punishment system as well as changes in the employment...

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The Long-Term Impact of Children's Disabilities on Families

Gunnsteinsson, Snaebjorn; Steingrimsdottir, Herdis - 2019

Childhood disability is a major health shock that aﬀects parents early in their working life. We estimate its impact on parents’ career trajectories, their balance sheets, and major life decisions using detailed register data from Denmark. To identify the causal eﬀect of childhood...

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