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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262363
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Unemployment Paths in a Pandemic Economy
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Valletta, Robert G. - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269972
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The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, W. Craig; … - 2022
stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351943
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How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World?
Kugler, Maurice; Viollaz, Mariana; Duque, Daniel; … - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658098
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Canadian Labour Market Dynamics during COVID-19
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, W. Craig; … - 2021
stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658167
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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703292
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262608
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Large employers are more cyclically sensitive
Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2009
We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269006
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Impacts of labor taxation with perfectly and imperfectly competitive domestic labor markets under flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269644
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Labour market dynamics in Australia: what drives unemployment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
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