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What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?

Haefke, Christian - 2011

labor supply elasticity. For this purpose, we extend the standard labor market matching model to allow for endogenous … correlation of unemployment and GDP, implies an aggregate labor supply elasticity along the extensive margin of around 0.3 for men …

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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States : Any Differences?

Merkl, Christian - 2010

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older U.S. studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number...

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Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS

Burda, Michael C. - 2013

We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...

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Public Wages, Public Employment, and Business Cycle Volatility : Evidence from U.S. Metro Areas

A. Reicher, Claire - 2016

set up a search and matching model that contains a government sector and a role for government spending in product markets …. This latter mechanism affects how the outside option behaves, and this mechanism can help a search and matching model to … generate wage-reducing and stabilizing effects of public employment. Without this mechanism, a search and matching model cannot …

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Elasticity of Supply to the Firm and the Business Cycle

Depew, Briggs - 2011

A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite … inter-war period, we are able to estimate the elasticity of supply to the firm during several recessions and expansions. Our … analysis suggests that the elasticity is indeed lower during recessions, consistent with the comparative statics from the …

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Giving Up Job Search During a Recession : The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the South African Labour Market

Verick, Sher - 2011

The global financial crisis deeply impacted the South African labour market resulting in the shedding of almost 1 million jobs over 2009 and 2010. Reflecting longer term structural problems, this employment loss translated into a much larger rise in the number of discouraged individuals rather...

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The Cyclicality of the Separation and Job Finding Rates in France

Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2012

In this paper, we aim to shed light on the relative contribution of the separation and job finding rates to French unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on registered unemployment and labor force surveys. We first investigate the fluctuations in steady state...

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On the Job Search and Business Cycles

Moscarini, Giuseppe - 2018

which OJS amplifies and propagates aggregate shocks: (i) a higher estimated elasticity of the matching function, when …

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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation Over the Business Cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020

This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational mobility and unemployment duration over the...

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Job Search During a Pandemic Recession : Survey Evidence from the Netherlands

Balgova, Maria; Trenkle, Simon; Zimpelmann, Christian; … - 2021

This paper studies job search behavior in the midst of a pandemic recession. We use long-running panel data from the Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific module, conducted in June 2020, surveying job search effort of employed as well as unemployed...

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