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Labour force participation and job polarization: evidence from Europe during the Great Recession
Verdugo, Gregory; Allègre, Guillaume - 2020
the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243219
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228177
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From mancession to shecession: women's employment in regular and pandemic recessions
Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - 2021
. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493353
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This time it's different: the role of women's employment in a pandemic recession
Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane; … - 2020
In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession … caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258294
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A tale of two countries : a story of the French and US polarization
Albertini, Julien; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2017
This study investigates job polarization in the United States and in France. In the data, the dynamics of employment shares for abstract, routine, and manual jobs appear very similar in the two countries. This similarity actually hides major differences in the dynamics of employment levels by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732027
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Gender inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: income, expenditure, savings, and job loss
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306066
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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406689
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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession
Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2016
The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595845
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Value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level
Merkl, Christian; Stüber, Heiko - 2018
In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level. We develop a simple model to illustrate the expected comovement of these variables. For the empirical analysis, we link the new German Administrative Wage and Labor Market Flow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796396
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The part-time pay penalty in a segmented labor market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - 2009
While much of the literature that investigates the part-time (PT) / full-time (FT) hourly wage differential and its causes focuses on average effects, very few studies analyze the heterogeneous effects of PT work across different subgroups, despite the policy relevance of understanding channels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879376