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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524624
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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 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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Not in my backyard? : the local impact of wind and solar parks in Brazil
Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - 2024
Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014505344
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The economic burden of burnout
Nekoei, Arash; Jósef Sigurdsson; Wehr, Dominik Robert - 2024
We study the economic consequences of stress-related occupational illnesses (burnout) using Swedish administrative data. Using a mover design, we find that high-burnout firms and stressful occupations universally raise burnout risk yet disproportionately impact low-stress-tolerance workers....
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The right man for the job
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2001
rates are consistent with weakly increasing returns in matching. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment …
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Sickness absence and search unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - 2004
The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449837
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Mismatch unemployment in Austria : the role of regional labour markets for skills
Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021
the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514547
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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom
Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017
unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646817
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Labor markets during the covid-19 crisis : a preliminary view
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …
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