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The ins and outs of involuntary part-time employment

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2018

We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...

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Measuring heterogeneity in job finding rates among the nonemployed using labor force status histories

Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - 2014

We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...

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How did the COVID-19 crisis affect different types of workers in the developing world?

Kugler, Maurice; Viollaz, Mariana; Duque, Daniel; … - 2021

This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set of high-frequency phone surveys conducted by the World Bank and National Statistics Offices...

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Has the willingness to work fallen during the COVID pandemic?

Faberman, R. Jason; Müller, Andreas; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2022

the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …

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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy

Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013

This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...

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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

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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Decomposing the ins and outs of cyclical unemployment

Bachmann, Ronald; Sinning, Mathias - 2012

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

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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...

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Disaggregate matching functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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Employment to output elasticities & reforms towards flexicurity : evidence from OECD countries

Görg, Holger; Hornok, Cecília; Montagna, Catia; … - 2018

How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...

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