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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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Life-Cycle Worker Flows and Cross-Country Differences in Aggregate Employment

Créchet, Jonathan; Lalé, Etienne; Tarasonis, Linas - 2024

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …

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Assessing Labor Market Conditions in Canada with Public-Use Microdata

Lalé, Etienne - 2024

Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … of job search from inactivity compared to unemployment. This factor provides enough structure to prevent arbitrary … splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a …

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Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review

Kluve, Jochen; Puerto, Olga Susana; Robalino, David A.; … - 2016

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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Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review

Kluve, Jochen; Puerto, Susanna; Robalino, David; … - 2016

This study reviews the evidence on the labor market impact of youth employment programs. We analyze the effectiveness of interventions, and factors that influence program performance including country context, target beneficiaries, program design, implementation, and evaluation type. We identify...

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The Evolution of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Labor Market: The Complete Picture of Gross Worker Flows

Lalé, Etienne - 2016

The U.S. labor market experienced a more than 20 percent reduction in the share of workers holding multiple jobs over the past 20 years. While this substantial trend is receiving increasing attention, the literature lacks a comprehensive picture of the gross worker flows that underlie the...

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Search and Multiple Jobholding

Lalé, Etienne - 2019

A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...

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Employment Adjustment and Part-time Jobs: The U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2016

We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...

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Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers

Lalé, Etienne - 2016

This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …

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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance : New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Schaal, Andreas - 2004

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...

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