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probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …
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Most of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of family leave policies comes from studies focusing on their impacts on affected families - that is, mothers, fathers, and their children - without a clear understanding of the costs and effects on firms and coworkers. We use data from Denmark...
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. Labour demand is expressed by its structural parameters, such as the elasticities of employment to output and factor prices …. Institutional variables include employment protection legislation, the structure of wage bargaining, measures describing the tax and … transfer system and active labour market policies. As cointegration between employment, output and factor prices is detected …
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wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation between …
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We document substantial heterogeneity in occupational employment dynamics in response to government spending shocks …. Employment rises most strongly in service, sales, and office ("pink-collar") occupations. By contrast, employment in blue … employment dynamics as a consequence of differences in the short-run substitutability between labor and capital services across …
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of routine employment and its consequent impacts on inequality. …
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examine employment dynamics during various periods, including significant shocks like the 2008 global recession, the local … characteristics influences employment structure dynamics. Turkey's labor market is highly dynamic, with job reallocation rates ranging …
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This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 … employment growth. This result is robust to a variety of other explanations including industry composition, routinisation, and …
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care for a spouse has not been studied widely. We examine the effects of California's law on the employment of workers who … the paid leave program increased the employment of 45-64 year old women with a disabled spouse in California by around 0 …, with a 2.9 percentage point rise in private sector employment. The employment of men with a disabled spouse in California …
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COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
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