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. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …
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the impact of uncertainty shocks on unemployment dynamics. Using a vector autoregression approach, we show that … uncertainty shocks measured by stock market volatility have a significant impact on the U.S. unemployment rate. We then develop a …
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choice to disentangle the respective contributions of task-biased technological change (TBTC), labor market institutions (LMI …
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We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) - a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows employees to decline any workload. We find quantitatively that ZHCs improve welfare by enabling firms with more volatile...
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In this paper, we investigate whether business cycles can imply sizable effects on average unemployment. First, using a … on unemployment: positive shocks reduce unemployment less than negative shocks increase it. For the observed process of … average job finding rate and so the business cycle cost. -- Business cycle costs ; unemployment dynamics …
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This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous … simulations of the model. -- TFP growth ; unemployment by age ; old workers' employment rate ; capitalization ; creative …
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Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin,...
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labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …
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their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive …
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EPL varying among workers of different skills on the level and composition of unemployment, job flows, productivity and …
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