Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 256
Cover Image
Search and multiple jobholding
Lalé, Etienne - 2019
A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059551
Cover Image
Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017
extractive economic and political institutions even after the weighted voting system was abolished and universal suffrage … using both extractive economic and political institutions (Acemoglu and Robinson (2008)). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917048
Cover Image
The heterogeneous labor market impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic
Matias, Guido; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2020
We study the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic's impacts on employment. Using CPS data on stocks and flows, we show that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Although employment losses have been widespread, they have been substantially larger in lower-paying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389754
Cover Image
Long social distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480594
Cover Image
The impact of nurse turnover on quality of care and mortality in nursing homes: Eevidence from the Great Recession
Akosa Antwi, Yaa; Bowblis, John R. - 2016
instrumental variable estimation that uses the unemployment rate as an instrument for nursing turnover. We find that ignoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760036
Cover Image
Aggregate demand, idle time, and unemployment
Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - 2014
This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418280
Cover Image
Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600752
Cover Image
The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2016
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613463
Cover Image
Hartz and minds: Happiness effects of reforming an employment agency
Deter, Max - 2020
Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294311
Cover Image
Individual and workplace-specific determinants of paid and unpaid overtime work in Germany
Zapf, Ines - 2015
In Germany, overtime work is a well-established instrument for varying working hours of employees and is of great importance for establishments as a measure of internal flexibility. However, not all employees are affected to the same degree by a variation of the work effort through overtime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301385