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Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers

Lalé, Etienne - 2016

This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …

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Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

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Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review

Kluve, Jochen; Puerto, Olga Susana; Robalino, David A.; … - 2016

This study reviews the evidence on the impact of youth employment programs on labor market outcomes. The analysis looks at the effectiveness of various interventions and the factors that influence program performance including country context, targeted beneficiaries, program design and...

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The Evolution of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Labor Market: The Complete Picture of Gross Worker Flows

Lalé, Etienne - 2016

The U.S. labor market experienced a more than 20 percent reduction in the share of workers holding multiple jobs over the past 20 years. While this substantial trend is receiving increasing attention, the literature lacks a comprehensive picture of the gross worker flows that underlie the...

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How did the great recession affect different types of workers? Evidence from 17 middle-income countries

Cho, Yoonyoung; Newhouse, David - 2011

, unemployment, and wage employment, particularly relative to older adults. The percentage employment reductions, for example, were …

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The importance of two-sided heterogeneity for the cyclicality of labour market dynamics

Bachmann, Ronald; David, Peggy - 2010

unemployment at large firms are generally found to be more cyclical. However, this stylised fact disappears when the composition of …

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More alike than different: The Spanish and Irish labour markets before and after the crisis

Agnese, Pablo; Salvador, Pablo F. - 2011

global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates among other developed economies. Spain and … sets of dynamic simulations which account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our … labour productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries. …

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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2010

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...

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Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks? Aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries

Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David; Paci, Pierella - 2011

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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What do participation fluctuations tell us about labor supply elasticities?

Haefke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 2011

participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the variability of unemployment and participation, and the negative … correlation of unemployment and GDP, implies an aggregate labor supply elasticity along the extensive margin of around 0.3 for men …

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