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In this paper, we analyze firm demand for flexible jobs by exploiting the language used to describe work arrangements in job vacancies. We take a supervised machine learning approach to classify the work arrangements described in more than 46 million UK job vacancies. We highlight the existence...
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countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …
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Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily...
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Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of others. Further, status concerns create incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive...
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We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...
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causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
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who started from non-unemployment and did not receive the subsidy. The data allows us to analyze their business …
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We analyse the moderating effect of trade unions on industrial employment and unemployment in countries facing exposure … the industry sector employment of young and low-educated workers. We also show that the unemployment rates for low … countries, low-educated unemployment declines with robot exposure but from a higher starting point. Our results point to unions …
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of taxes. Controlling for demand-side and supply-side determinants of unemployment, we show that the PTB plays a … significant role in explaining unemployment in the continental European countries, but not in the Nordic nor the Anglo-Saxon ones …. We also show that there is no relationship between the incidence of the PTB and unemployment persistence, even though …
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probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment …
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