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Labor Market Frictions and Lowest Low Fertility

Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - 2019

The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high- income countries. Why do women choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We focus on two frictions: uncertainty created by dual labor...

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The Long Run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2020

This paper studies the long term consequences on workers' labour earnings of the credit crunch induced by the 2007-2008 financial crisis. We study the evolution of both employment and wages in a large sample of Italian workers followed for nine years after the start of the crisis. We rely on a...

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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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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do, Minh N.N. - 2024

While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...

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Atypical work and employment continuity

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2009

Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets - the CAEAS and the NLSY79 we determine whether workers who take such jobs rather than...

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Migration Aspirations among NEETs in Selected MENA Countries

Ramos, Raul - 2017

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region shows high levels of unemployment rates among youth and the rate of …

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The Iceberg Decomposition: A Parsimonious Way to Map the Health of Labour Markets

Baert, Stijn - 2020

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs : Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Estrin, Saul; Meyer, Klaus - 2004

Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...

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The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries : Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie E. - 2004

. Institutions and other structural factors are also found to be significant and important determinants of the rate of part … markets. Less robust evidence suggests the presence of unemployment traps for some potential part-time workers. Cross …

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Recent Developments in Part-Time Work in EU-15 Countries : Trends and Policy

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie E. - 2004

PTR across countries are significantly affected by policy and institutions. In particular policy measures geared toward … of social protection) to take up a part-time job. Moreover, other labour market institutions, including benefit systems …

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