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In light of recent discussions about shifting employees from traditional workplaces to virtual employment, we are motivated by the question of whether this phenomenon will end up saving lives even in the absence of an infectious disease outbreak. Motor vehicle incidents are the leading cause of...
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We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...
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they joined the establishment from unemployment This is supportive of equal treatment. We also show that a four parameter … series properties and co-properties of real wages, output, and unemployment, in particular the asymmetric response of wages …
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, we find asymmetric effects on child schooling based on skill composition of economic growth. Higher unemployment among … unskilled workers increases schooling, whereas higher unemployment among skilled workers decreases schooling. …
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the financial market, we address two prominent mechanism through which firms' financial constraints amplify unemployment … substantial decline in both unemployment and wages. Financial constraints therefore weaken the direct link between wage rigidity … and unemployment volatility. …
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-ownership rate in a U.S. state are a precursor to eventual sharp rises in unemployment in that state. The elasticity exceeds unity: a … unemployment rate. What mechanisms might explain this? We provide evidence that rises in home-ownership are associated with three …
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Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …
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This study examines individuals' unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals' unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …
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retirement spells has been steadily increasing. We estimate the response of retirement timing to variations in unemployment rate …, inflation and housing prices. Flows into both full and partial retirement increase significantly when the unemployment rate … rises. Workers around normal retirement age are especially sensitive to variations in the unemployment rate. Workers who are …
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joint unemployment and vacancy dynamics. We show conditions for constrained efficiency and discuss important implications of …
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