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OpenStreetMap can significantly improve estimates of labor force participation and unemployment rates. Incorporating geospatial … information substantially increases the accuracy of male and female labor force participation and unemployment rates at the state … unemployment. Small area estimation using a nested error conditional random effect model also greatly improves municipal estimates …
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unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to … employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment of household production … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. -- alternative …
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monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …, unemployment, and out-of-thelabor- force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/ December 1994. The …
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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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presents ideas for future research in a number of others, including the study of labor demand, search and unemployment, wage …
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Hours worked is an important economic indicator. In addition to being a measure of labor utilization, average weekly hours are inputs into measures of productivity and hourly wages, which are two key economic indicators. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' two hours series tell very...
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estimated unemployment rate for earlier rotation groups has grown sharply relative to the unemployment rate for later rotation … unemployment rate by rotation group and find that, despite the rise in rotation group bias, the official unemployment does no worse …
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Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
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This paper uses micro data from the ILO-STWT surveys to provide novel evidence on the duration, end point and … offset by widespread poverty and lack of unemployment insurance, leading to overall faster transitions in low income …
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apprenticeship training have longer job durations. In contrast, the larger the number of unemployment and employment spells, the …
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