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an expected long period of unemployment make a job more valuable during recessions. I estimate the elasticity of the … intensity only slightly if at all during recessions. Roughly, 30 minutes in a week is the additional search intensity attributed …
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We analyze the differential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Spanish labor market across population groups, as well as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as well as women are the most affected by the COVID-19 shock...
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. We find that young and less educated workers have always been affected more in recessions, while women and Hispanics were … teleworkable and essential jobs fell less during the Pandemic Crisis. Lastly, during both recessions, workers at low …-income earnings have suffered more than top-income earners, suggesting a significant distributional impact of the two recessions …
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overall employment in previous recessions. Using a business cycle model with a rich labor market structure, we recover the …
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earnings losses for young workers generated by unemployment: unemployment represents time forgone in terms of human capital … downturn, as documented in the empirical literature. At the aggregate level, the framework delivers youth unemployment rates … that are higher and more sensitive to fluctuations in aggregate productivity than total unemployment rates. Additionally …
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This paper studies the labour force participation in Mexico between 2005 and 2018 at the aggregate level. While the ageing of the labour force produced modest reductions in the participation rate, changes in the educational level countervailed these effects for the period of study. In...
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This paper employs a calibrated model of the US economy to analyze the boom and bust in house prices as well as the shifts in the distribution of wealth during the years around the Great Recession. We replicate the dynamics of the housing market using shocks to aggregate income, the distribution...
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The non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) is not directly observable and the presence of informal … informality seems to predict inflationary pressures more accurately when the unemployment gap is close to zero. …
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We analyze the joint impact of employment protection and informality on macroeconomic volatility and the propagation of shocks in emerging economies. For this, we propose a small open economy business cycle model with frictional labor markets, labor regulation, and an informal sector, modeled as...
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I study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formal employment of entrants from each post-Great Recession year. Using longitudinal Mexican social security records and an individual fixed-effects difference-in-differences design, I find that the pandemic caused more recent entrants from...
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