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Technological change and occupation mobility : a task-based approach to horizontal mismatch

Aepli, Manuel - 2019

Technological change and its impacts on labour markets are a much-discussed topic in economics. Economists generally assume that new technology penetrating the labour market shifts firms' task demand. Given individuals' acquired and supplied skills, these task demand shifts potentially foster...

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Beyond technological explanations of employment polarisation in Spain

Sebastian, Raquel; Harrison, Scott - 2017

This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in Spain … between 1994 and 2008. Spain has experienced job polarisation over the whole period, with growth at the upper part of the wage … job polarisation, not just in Spain, but possibly globally. …

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Beyond the added-worker and the discouraged-worker effects : the entitled-worker effect

Martín-Román, Ángel L. - 2020

This paper identifies and analyses a new effect related to the cyclical behavior of labor supply: the Entitled-Worker Effect (EWE). This effect is different from the well-known Added-Worker Effect (AWE) and Discouraged-Worker Effect (DWE). The EWE is a consequence of one of the most important...

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Self-employment and Okun's law relationship : the Spanish case

Porras, Sylvina; Martín-Román, Ángel L. - 2017

(rolling-window) for the autonomous communities in Spain (1981-2013) showing significant regional differences as well as …

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Okun's law : the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the temporary layoffs procedures (ERTE) on Spanish regions

Porras-Arena, M. Sylvina; Martín-Román, Ángel L.; … - 2022

Official statistics indicated a break in Okun's law in all the Spanish regions due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, herein, evidence of the validity of the law is shown. The temporary layoff procedures (ERTE) allowed many workers to maintain their jobs. From the productive point of view, the...

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R&D, embodied technological change and employment : evidence from Spain

Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2018

In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2002-2013. Our GMM-SYS estimates generate various results, which are partially in contrast with the extant literature. Indeed,...

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A new claims-based unemployment dataset : application to postwar recoveries across U.S. states

Fieldhouse, Andrew; Howard, Sean; Koch, Christoffer; … - 2022

Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U.S. states going back to January 1947. The constructed series are highly correlated with the Bureau of Labor Statics' state-level unemployment data, which are only available from...

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Germany's labour market in Coronavirus distress : new challenges to safeguarding employment

Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - 2021

We analyse measures of internal flexibility taken to safeguard employment during the Coronavirus Crisis in comparison to the Great Recession. Cyclical working-time reductions are again a major factor in safeguarding employment. Whereas during the Great Recession all working-time instruments...

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Long live the vacancy

Häfke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 2020

We reassess the role of vacancies in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides style search and matching model. In the absence of free entry long lived vacancies and endogenous separations give rise to a vacancy depletion channel which we identify via joint unemployment and vacancy dynamics. We show...

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Price, sales, and the business cycle : a time series principal component analysis

Borraz, Fernando; Livan, Giacomo; Rodríguez-Martínez, … - 2020

The main contribution of this work consist on studying sales behaviour and their relationship with local market conditions like labor market indicators through a time series principal component analysis. We study the correlation structure of a large database on prices and found that all product...

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