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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Dixon, Robert John - 2014

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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Hours Worked in Europe and the US : New Data, New Answers

Bick, Alexander - 2016

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...

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Labour Market Participation in Brazil : A Discrete Game Approach

Resende, Marcelo - 2017

The paper aims to investigate the labour market participation of couples in Brazil in 2013. The observed endogenous variables portraying participation are assumed to be the outcome of a static discrete game between the partners. Different solution concepts are considered (Nash, Stackelberg and...

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Friday the 13th : The Empirics of Bad Luck

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2014

We use the UK Labor Force survey to investigate whether the socio-economic outcomes of people born on the 13th day of the month, and of those born on Friday the 13th, differ from the outcomes of people born on more auspicious days. In many European countries, including the UK, such days are...

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The Determinants of Employment and Earnings in Indonesia : A Multinomial Selection Approach

Comola, Margherita - 2009

sector is perceived by those workers who cannot obtain a job in the formal sector as an alternative to inactivity. This …

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Labour Regulation and Employment Dynamics at the State Level in India

Dougherty, Sean - 2008

Over the past decade, labour market outcomes have improved in India, with net employment rising markedly for the economy as a whole. However, these gains have arisen primarily in the unorganized and informal sectors of the economy, where productivity and wages are generally much lower than in...

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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men

Autor, David H. - 2018

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...

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Better jobs and incomes in Bulgaria

Molnar, Margit - 2023

migration are undermining Bulgaria’s growth prospects, the sustainability of its social institutions and society more widely … disadvantaged backgrounds should be offered a career path through upgrading skills and lifelong learning. Inactivity rates among the …

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Employment Growth, Inflation and Output Growth : Was Phillips Right? Evidence from a Dynamic Panel

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in Phillips' tradition. For this purpose we apply FMOLS, DOLS, PMGE, MGE, DFE, and VECM methods to a nonstationary heterogeneous dynamic panel including annual data for 119...

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