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Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners' unemployment with an increase in labor market … participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women's labor market statuses and their partners' unemployment in …
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This paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham, Swenson, Imrohoroğlu, and Song (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error accounts...
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preferences for public sector employment and employers. In fixed effects specifications, we demonstrate that feelings of job … insecurity, experiences with wage arrears, and spells of unemployment all increase the attractiveness of work in the public …
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market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment 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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In addition to realized earnings and employment shocks, forward-looking individuals are presumed to condition their … perceptions of earnings and employment risks using rich monthly panel data. It documents considerable individual heterogeneity in …
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for full employment beyond the implications of NAIRU. The latter concept is actually misleading, because most economists … and commentators in the media equate it with "full employment". As a consequence, endemic and large scale un- and … unemployment down to the minimum feasible rate which in the U.S. is most likely around 1.2%,--the rate which prevailed in 1944 and …
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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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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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