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views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects … industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the scope and direction of search change. Job seekers respond to the shock by … demand would predict. The redirection of job search changes relative hiring costs, and has the potential to amplify labour …
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This paper analyses aggregate labour dynamics during the global financial crisis in Japan and the role of nonstandard …
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This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
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The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by...
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-run decline due to technical change and globalization. We provide evidence that occupation-specific changes in labor demand are …
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Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the late 1990s - Chinese import competition...
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market shock is provoked in the home country or originates from abroad. We also point out how our results extend to two …
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This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of … countries suggest that following the initial shock at the start of the pandemic, employment rates partially recovered between …
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constraints have been essentially detrimental for employment among SMEs experiencing a negative demand shock or facing strong …
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This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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