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Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Poschke, Markus - 2023

unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment increases with this ratio. To understand the sources of these … matches, and calibrate it to match all transition rates between wage employment, unemployment and self-employment as well as … that labor market frictions affect self-employment as much as unemployment. Labor market frictions also reduce aggregate …

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Lockdown Accounting

Gottlieb, Charles; Grobovsek, Jan; Poschke, Markus; … - 2020

We measure the effect of lockdown policies on employment and GDP across countries using individual- and sector-level data. Employment effects depend on the ability to work from home, which ranges from about half of total employment in rich countries to around 35% in poor countries. This gap...

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Working from Home in Developing Countries

Gottlieb, Charles; Grobovsek, Jan; Poschke, Markus; … - 2020

We examine workers' ability to work from home, as well as their propensity to actually work from home in developing countries. We use worker-level STEP data covering the task content of jobs to measure the ability to work from home. While the ability to WFH is low in developing countries, it...

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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...

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Employment protection, firm selection, and growth

Poschke, Markus - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It is consistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation for productivity growth. In...

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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2010

In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change...

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The Gender Division of Work across Countries

Gottlieb, Charles; Doss, Cheryl; Gollin, Douglas; … - 2024

Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high-quality time use data for 50 countries spanning the global...

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Mandated versus Negotiated Severance Pay

Auray, Stéphane; Danthine, Samuel; Poschke, Markus - 2014

results in levels of severance pay providing full insurance, which depend on the generosity of unemployment benefits and on …

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Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Poschke, Markus - 2019

have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the … unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions … labor market frictions can explain almost the entire variation in not only unemployment, but also wage employment and self …

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