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Hours vs employment in response to demand shocks : evaluating the labor market effects of temporary aggregate demand shocks requires analyzing both employment and hours of work

Hart, Robert A. - 2017

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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Hours vs employment in response to demand shocks : evaluating the labor market effects of temporary aggregate demand shocks requires analyzing both employment and hours of work

Hart, Robert A. - 2023

The responses of working hours and employment levels to temporary negative demand shocks like those caused by the Great …

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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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Wage and employment cyclicalities at the establishment level

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The labor market in India since the 1990s : productivity growth and low unemployment have not been matched by comparable rises in wages

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kar, Saibal - 2018

The Indian economy entered an ongoing process of trade liberalization, domestic deregulation, and privatization of public sector units in 1991. Since then, per capita output has increased significantly, while the overall unemployment rate has remained low. However, labor force participation...

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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

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Crime and immigration : do poor labor market opportunities lead to migrant crime?

Bell, Brian - 2014

Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that...

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Crime and immigration : do poor labor market opportunities lead to migrant crime?

Bell, Brian - 2019

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Labor supply and the demand for child care : an intertemporal approach

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Consumption risk sharing over the business cycle : the role of small firms' access to credit markets

Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna - 2009

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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