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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates

Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014

This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...

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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 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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Wage losses and inequality in developing countries : labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey

Duman, Anil - 2020

We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...

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The unemployment invariance hypothesis and the implications of added and discouraged worker effects in Latin America

Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel; Martín-Román, Ángel - 2023

This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates … focused on the study of time series is used to validate the unemployment invariance hypothesis and explore added and … the unemployment invariance hypothesis in several countries appears to reflect some rigidities that prevent the …

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The dynamics of labour market polarization in Chile : an analysis of the link between technical change and informality

Delaporte, Isaure; Peña, Werner - 2023

in Chile is mostly due to a decrease in the in ow transition rate from unemployment as well as an increase in the out ow … transition rates to unemployment and informality. …

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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...

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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2010

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 heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...

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Did a successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic come at a cost? : impacts of the outbreak on employment outcomes in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …

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The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Delaporte, Isaure; Escobar, Julia; Peña, Werner - 2021 - Current version: April 15, 2021

This paper estimates the potential distributional consequences of the first phase of the COVID-19 lockdowns on poverty and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We estimate the share of individuals that are potentially able to remain active under the...

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Unwilling to train? : firm responses to the Colombian apprenticeship regulation

Caicedo, Santiago; Espinosa, Miguel; Seibold, Arthur - 2020

We study firm responses to a large-scale change in apprenticeship regulation in Colombia. The reform requires firms to train, setting apprentice quotas that vary discontinuously in firm size. We document strong heterogeneity in responses across sectors, where firms in sectors with high skill...

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