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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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Unemployment paths in a pandemic economy
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Valletta, Robert G. - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to … the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds … the path for measured unemployment, depending on the path of the virus and containment measures and their impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228061
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Canadian labour market dynamics during COVID-19
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2021
stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596068
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Assessing labor market conditions in Canada with public-use microdata
Lalé, Etienne - 2024
Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … of job search from inactivity compared to unemployment. This factor provides enough structure to prevent arbitrary … splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461497
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Life-cycle worker flows and cross-country differences in aggregate employment
Créchet, Jonathan; Lalé, Etienne; Tarasonis, Linas - 2024
document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502913
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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment?
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528838
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Employment adjustment and part-time jobs : the U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2016
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455784
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The great Canadian recovery : the impact of COVID-19 on Canada's labour market
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2022
stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013274013
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Job search during the COVID-19 crisis
Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213681