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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 … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …
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transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …
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market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …
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impacts on employment and wages. One important mechanism is transitions to nonemployment after disability onset: newly … points after five years relative to that of the control group. For those who stay in employment, working part-time and …
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. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment …To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction … finding and job separation rates for the U.S. unemployment rate dynamics. Drawing on this approach, we are able to reconcile …
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We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind labor force reallocation. We show that worker flows between jobs in different industries are rare relative to the demographic flows of youth entry and elderly exit. The same applies...
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Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in … asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment, whereas linear models with Gaussian innovations preclude such dynamics. This … paper applies several tests for asymmetry to aggregate British, German and US unemployment data to assess the relevance of …
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of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …
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The literature estimating returns to education has often utilized spousal education and parental education as instrument variables (IV). However, due to usual survey designs, both IVs are available only for the individuals whose spouse or parents are present in the same household. The IV...
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employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary … result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects …
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