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and firm composition. We find no significant effect on total employment but a small positive effect on Local Authority …
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In response to the record-breaking COVID19 recession, many governments have adopted unprecedented fiscal stimuli. While countercyclical fiscal policy is effective in fighting conventional recessions, little is known about the effectiveness of fiscal policy in the current environment with...
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Will the current employment crisis produce lost generations with permanently lower labour market attachment? Taking an … explicit cohort perspective and based on Danish data we do not find strong persistence in employment rates at the cohort level … assessments of persistence in aggregate employment rates. …
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fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks … lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock … predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to …
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We examine how couples' labour supply behaviour in the UK responds to a job loss by one partner, using the Labour Force Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and its aftermath of 2008-11. In single earner couples during the recession, both men and women...
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About 5 percent of U.S. workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the …
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vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real …
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the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …-sensitive employment outcomes than college-educated natives. -- business cycle ; recession ; employment ; immigrants …
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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 …
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In this paper we use information on the cyclical variation of labor market participation to learn about the aggregate labor supply elasticity. For this purpose, we extend the standard labor market matching model to allow for endogenous participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the...
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