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Man-Cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment
Bredemeier, Christian - 2015
fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024941
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What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?
Haefke, Christian - 2011
In this paper we use information on the cyclical variation of labor market participation to learn about the aggregate labor supply elasticity. For this purpose, we extend the standard labor market matching model to allow for endogenous participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119024
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Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle
Haefke, Christian - 2006
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 simple, tractable job market matching model, show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780475
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Employment Adjustment and Part-Time Jobs : The U.S. and the U.K. In the Great Recession
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 2016
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995588
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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories
Kudlyak, Marianna - 2014
We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042984
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Long-Term Effects of Recession on Parenthood Gender Inequality
Kim, Jinyoung; Kwak, Eunhye - 2023
This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth … conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap among parents. Employing the instrumental variable (IV) method … time and accounts for 30 40 percent of the after-childbirth gender gap in earnings. Unintended impacts of recession on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014355489
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Baby Steps : The Gender Division of Childcare During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Sevilla, Almudena - 2020
share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832590
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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender : Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2011
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118773
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Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis
Hensvik, Lena - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833886
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The Evolution of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Labor Market : The Complete Picture of Gross Worker Flows
Lalé, Etienne - 2016
The U.S. labor market experienced a more than 20 percent reduction in the share of workers holding multiple jobs over the past 20 years. While this substantial trend is receiving increasing attention, the literature lacks a comprehensive picture of the gross worker flows that underlie the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979439