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employment and unemployment. However, it can be seriously misleading to ignore the interrelated behavior of hours worked ….Work hours can be altered relatively speedily and flexibly, and this strongly relates to employment, labor productivity, and … unemployment outcomes. The hours–employment distinction is especially important in the evaluation of the performances of European …
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The responses of working hours and employment levels to temporary negative demand shocks like those caused by the Great …
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This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and …
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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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wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments' wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
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Denmark is often highlighted as a "flexicurity" country characterized by lax employment protection legislation …, generous unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. Despite a sharp and prolonged decline in employment in the … labor supply and employment, targeting the young, elderly, and immigrants. Employment recovered to its structural level …
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aggregate risk sharing are more pronounced in states in which small firms account for a large share income or employment. In …
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not experienced since the Great Depression. Concerns have arisen over the impacts on young adults' employment, income …
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explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …
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Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
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