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This Job is 'Getting Old' : Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

Autor, David H. - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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Man-Cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment

Bredemeier, Christian - 2015

In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender...

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Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe - the Role of Services

D'Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; … - 2021

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...

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The Effects of Large Universal Child Benefits on Female Labour Supply

Magda, Iga - 2018

In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...

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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

In European Welfare States, unskilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic...

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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions

Eichhorst, Werner - 2010

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong …

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Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey : Is There an Added or a Discouraged Worker Effect?

Karaoglan, Deniz - 2012

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …

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Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?

Guner, Nezih - 2020

The added worker effect (AWE) measures the entry of individuals into the labor force due to their partners' job loss. We propose a new method to calculate the AWE, which allows us to estimate its effect on any labor market outcome. We show that the AWE reduces the fraction of households with two...

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Labour Force Participation and Job Polarization : Evidence from Europe During the Great Recession

Verdugo, Gregory - 2020

the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …

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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Kaiser, Lutz - 2021

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...

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