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Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers

Lalé, Étienne - 2017

depreciation upon job loss - and its interaction with labor market institutions. We have three main results, based on a life … between turbulence and institutions explains most of the reduction in labor force participation among older workers in Europe … over this period, but ultimately explains little of the rise in unemployment. Third, only a small share of the increase in …

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Employment Adjustment and Part-time Work: Lessons from the United States and the United Kingdom

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Étienne - 2017

We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we develop a stock-flow framework to describe the dynamics of part-time employment. The evolution of parttime employment...

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On the evolution of multiple jobholding in Canada

Kostyshyna, Olena; Lalé, Étienne - 2021

In Canada, the fraction of workers holding multiple jobs has almost tripled since the mid-1970s. In this paper, we document this historical change and provide a comprehensive account of its dynamics. We use restricted-access panel micro-data from the Canadian labour force survey to construct...

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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.

Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024

Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...

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Italian labour frictions and wage rigidities in an estimated DSGE

Diwambuena, Josué; Fonseca, Raquel; Schubert, Stefan Franz - 2021

This paper investigates how Italian labour market institutions influence business cycle fluctuations. We apply a DSGE … unemployment and vacancies fluctuations but their role is limited for output fluctuations. Third, labour market relaxation policies … have only marginally contributed to the reduction in unemployment. Last, accounting for wage rigidities influences labour …

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The fiscal and welfare effects of policy responses to the Covid-19 school closures

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Kurmann, André; … - 2021

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...

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School closures and effective in-person learning during COVID-19: When, where, and for whom

Kurmann, André; Lalé, Etienne - 2022

We match cell phone data to administrative school records and combine it with information on school learning modes to study effective in-person learning (EIPL) in the U.S. during the pandemic. We find large differences in EIPL for the 2020-21 school year. Public schools averaged less EIPL than...

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Zero-hours contracts in a frictional labor market

Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2022

We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) - a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows workers to decline any workload. We find quantitatively mixed welfare effects of ZHCs. On one hand they unlock job...

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Self-employment at older ages in Canada

Fonseca, Raquel; Lord, Simon; Parker, Simon C. - 2020

This paper examines the work motivations and incentives of employees and selfemployed workers near retirement age. We use a sample of Canadians 50 years and older taken from LISA, the Longitudinal and International Study of Adult. Results are as follows. Poverty is associated positively with the...

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From dual to unified employment protection: Transition and steady state

Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Étienne; Siassi, Nawid - 2020

Three features of real-life reforms of dual employment protection legislation (EPL) systems are particularly hard to study through the lens of standard labour-market search models: (i) the excess job turnover implied by dual EPL, (ii) the non-retroactive nature of EPL reforms, and (iii) the...

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