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Whodunnit? Changes in the relative demand for unskilled and skilled labor

Schimmelpfennig, Axel - 1999

relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

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The macroeconomics of the labor market: Three fundamental views

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

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The Dynamics of Labour Market Polarization in Chile: An Analysis of the Link Between Technical Change and Informality

Delaporte, Isaure; Peña, Werner - 2023

in Chile is mostly due to a decrease in the in ow transition rate from unemployment as well as an increase in the out ow … transition rates to unemployment and informality. …

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Employment to output elasticities & reforms towards flexicurity: Evidence from OECD countries

Görg, Holger; Hornok, Cecília; Montagna, Catia; … - 2018

How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...

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Provision of public goods, voting and agglomerative bias

Kopp, Andreas - 1998

Skill-biased technical change is identified as the driving force behind the changing skill composition in OECD countries rather than structural change. The finding is partly the result of the sectoral view taken. This paper suggests a different view which uses the production process as a...

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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; 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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Wage Losses and Inequality in Developing Countries: labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey

Duman, Anil - 2020

We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...

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The Distributional Consequences of Social Distancing on Poverty and Labour Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Delaporte, Isaure; Escobar, Julia; Peña, Werner - 2020

This paper evaluates the distributional consequences of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We gather detailed information from national laws and decrees on the strictness and the duration of...

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Did a Successful Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic Come at a Cost? Impacts of the Outbreak on Employment Outcomes in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2020

rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …

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The unemployment invariance hypothesis and the implications of added and discouraged worker effects in Latin America

Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel; Martín-Román, Ángel - 2023

This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates … focused on the study of time series is used to validate the unemployment invariance hypothesis and explore added and … the unemployment invariance hypothesis in several countries appears to reflect some rigidities that prevent the …

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