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Structural change revisited : the rise of manufacturing jobs in the service sector
Boddin, Dominik; Kroeger, Thilo - 2021
This paper reconsiders the labor market consequences of structural change over the past 43 years. Taking two different ways of defining manufacturing and service employment as point of departure - according to the industry classification of firms or establishments and according to the occupation...
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Current unemployment variance decomposition and consequences of using proxies
Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Foguel, Miguel Nathan; … - 2021
We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624854
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Atypical employment in Europe 1996 - 2011
Allmendinger, Jutta; Hipp, Lena; Stuth, Stefan - 2013
, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In our analyses, we distinguish between fixedterm employment, solo …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208432
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Adjustments of local labour markets to the COVID-19 crisis : the role of digitalisation and working-from-home
Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2022
months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets …
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Job creation in tight and slack labor markets
Buchheim, Lukas; Watzinger, Martin; Wilhelm, Matthias - 2019
large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and …
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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 …
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Exploring the labor market consequences of psychiatric disorders : an event study approach
Salokangas, Henri - 2021
Vast literature documents a negative association between mental disorders and labor market performance but it is challenging to find a research design that could provide an reliable estimate for an effect. This paper provides new evidence on the immediate labor market consequences following the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695679
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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technology adopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082604
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202834