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About 5 percent of U.S. workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the … business cycle. Theory is ambiguous and prior literature is not fully conclusive. We examine the relationship between multiple …
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extensive-margin labor supply elasticity. A calibration of the model to macro data not only matches employment and participation …
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This paper examines how economic sanctions affect the allocation of workers across formal and informal employment. We … industries with higher trade exposure are significantly more likely to experience informal employment compared to workers in …
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This paper develops a novel and tractable empirical approach to estimate the cycle in schooling participation decisions, which we denominate the schooling cycle. The estimation procedure is based on unobserved components time series models that decompose higher education enrollment rates into a...
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Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...
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In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a … for other forces for cyclical labor demand to explain employment fluctuations. …
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This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the Hodrick-Prescott filter, the Baxter-King filter and the structural time...
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estimates of secondary "off the books" employment that are consistent with survey evidence for the EU14 and United States. We …
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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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