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This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …
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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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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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circumstances such as gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation. In this paper, we bring attention to labour market … Tella et al. (2001) to explore sectoral unemployment levels, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency as LS …-stage, we regress LS measures against the unemployment level, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency. Our results are …
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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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stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
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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...
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probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …
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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...
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This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …
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