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unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on registered unemployment and labor force surveys. We … first investigate the fluctuations in steady state unemployment, and then in current unemployment in order to take into … account the unemployment deviations from equilibrium. Our results show the dominant role of the job finding rate in accounting …
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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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performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …
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, we investigate the probability of female employment during the lockdown period between March and May 2020. Based on …
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This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different ECD labour markets in explaining … employment in the PS vs. the private sector, using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), in the light of different … by male and female workers among inactivity, unemployment, working in the PS and working in the private sector …
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evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and … appear to be important in explaining the employment rate of the young. In the case of women employment rates, the policy …
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two … cycle component. We find significantly larger unemployment responses to economic shocks for low-skilled workers relative to …
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Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate … procyclical unemployment rates and cannot match unemployment variability relative to GDP. We embed endogenous participation in a … extensive-margin labor supply elasticity. A calibration of the model to macro data not only matches employment and participation …
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This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors that could explain this pattern: (i) socioeconomic factors...
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This paper analyses the difference in short-term employment recovery between young men and women in India, Peru and … and an increase in the gender employment gap. In line with the literature, we find evidence that the unequal distribution … the change in the employment gap in India. Contrary to the previous literature, however, we find little evidence that the …
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