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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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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina
Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022
, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013399852
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Beyond the added-worker and the discouraged-worker effects : the entitled-worker effect
Martín-Román, Ángel L. - 2020
EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …
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Sources of German unemployment : evidence from a structural VAR model
Linzert, Tobias - 2001
This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run … display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446670
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The rise of the added worker effect
Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016
We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456513
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Sources of German unemployment : evidence from a structural VAR model
Linzert, Tobias - 2001
This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run … display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428423
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Fertility, family policy, and labor supply : quasi-experimental evidence from France
El-Mallakh, Nelly - 2021
This paper examines fertility and labor supply responses to a French policy reform that consisted in conditioning the amount of child allowances on household income. Relying on Regression Discontinuity Design and administrative income data, the paper finds that restricting family allowance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012667157
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Women at work in the pre-civil war United States : an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020
Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and societal expectations of female’s role, and lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239377
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Calling older workers back to work
Grigoli, Francesco; Koczan, Zsoka; Topalova, Petia - 2021
Population aging in advanced economies could have significant macroeconomic implications, unless more individuals choose to participate in labor markets. In this context, the steep increase in the share of older workers who remain economically active since the mid1990s is an overlooked yet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417615
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Women at work in the United States since 1860 : an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2021
Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533821