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The Recovery from the Great Recession : A Long, Evolving Expansion
Shambaugh, Jay; Strain, Michael R. - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...
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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...
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The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment
Borjas, George J. - 2020
Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly...
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When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State
Bratsberg, Bernt - 2007
We find that the lifecycle employment profiles of nonwestern male labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s diverge significantly from those of native comparison persons. During the first years after arrival almost all of the immigrants worked and their employment rate exceeded that...
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Capital Accumulation and Unemployment:New Insights on the Nordic Experience
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Salvador, Pablo F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. Thisrole has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission …-equation unemployment rate models... …
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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...
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The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 2018
We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...
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Labour Market Dynamics in Australia : What Drives Unemployment?
Karanassou, Marika - 2009
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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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
Dixon, Robert John - 2014
interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … 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 …
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Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?
Tansel, Aysit - 2016
This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …
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