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Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference model. We find that this …
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Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … market restrictions, and linked register data 1999-2016. We document large negative employment and earnings effects of …
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provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less … severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without saving jobs. The cost of saving jobs is low because shorttime work … demonstrates that short-time work saved jobs in firms faced with large drops in their revenues during the Great Recession, in …
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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 …
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the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has … historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much …
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unemployed declined after the reform. These patterns suggest that the reform of unemployment benefits may be one of the reasons …We investigate whether a cut in unemployment benefit payout periods affected older workers' labor market transitions … behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany. …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … study in which tens of thousands of 'immigrant jobs' were offered to native workers with a range of exogenously varying … terms. It uses novel data on the universe of domestic applicants to tens of thousands of farm jobs in the state of North …
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This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … estimates. The research period has been characterised by high labour demand, negative supply shocks, high levels of inflation … and economic lockdowns, all of which have contributed to substantial labour-market dynamics. Our findings suggest that …
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document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we … aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. We then build a life-cycle Diamond …
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We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …
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