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employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment … their labor market outcomes affected, while workers working in proximity to coworkers are more affected. The unemployment …, these policies increased unemployment by nearly 4 percentage points, but reduced COVID-19 cases by 186,600-311,000, and …
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increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force participation and had no significant impacts on wages …
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-analysis plan, we investigate the negative impact of the pandemic on unemployment, labour force participation, hours and wages in …
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During the nineties, unemployment fell in a number of European countries while it remained high in others. This Paper … political constraints, the prevalence of ideology, and agency issues within those bureaucracies concerned with the unemployment … problem. Some speculative thoughts are offered as to why those factors might be more stringent in countries where unemployment …
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This Paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. I look at two classes of measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions; and estimated welfare differences...
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negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …
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In this Paper, I analyse the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labour market in booms versus recessions, in light of considerations of social efficiency, political viability, and macroeconomic fine-tuning. While the optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative...
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