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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to … the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds … the path for measured unemployment, depending on the path of the virus and containment measures and their impact on …
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circumstances such as gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation. In this paper, we bring attention to labour market … Tella et al. (2001) to explore sectoral unemployment levels, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency as LS …-stage, we regress LS measures against the unemployment level, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency. Our results are …
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This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set of high-frequency phone surveys conducted by the World Bank and National Statistics Offices...
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This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
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stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
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unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …
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This study reviews the evidence on the impact of youth employment programs on labor market outcomes. The analysis looks at the effectiveness of various interventions and the factors that influence program performance including country context, targeted beneficiaries, program design and...
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-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …' skill level. -- labor demand ; heterogeneity ; age ; skill ; wage structure ; employment ; cohort effects ; unemployment …
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rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …
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the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …
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