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The importance of two-sided heterogeneity for the cyclicality of labour market dynamics

Bachmann, Ronald; David, Peggy - 2010

unemployment at large firms are generally found to be more cyclical. However, this stylised fact disappears when the composition of …

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More alike than different: The Spanish and Irish labour markets before and after the crisis

Agnese, Pablo; Salvador, Pablo F. - 2011

global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates among other developed economies. Spain and … sets of dynamic simulations which account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our … labour productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries. …

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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2010

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do, Minh N.N. - 2024

While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...

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Who Works for Whom? Worker Sorting in a Model of Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Labor Markets

Dinlersoz, Emin; Hyatt, Henry R.; Janicki, Hubert P. - 2016

Young and small firms are typically matched with younger and nonemployed individuals, and they provide these workers with lower earnings compared to other firms. To explore the mechanisms behind these facts, a dynamic model of entrepreneurship is introduced, where individuals can choose not to...

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Employment Adjustment and Part-time Jobs: The U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 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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Labor Market Frictions and Lowest Low Fertility

Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - 2019

The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high- income countries. Why do women choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We focus on two frictions: uncertainty created by dual labor...

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The Long Run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2020

This paper studies the long term consequences on workers' labour earnings of the credit crunch induced by the 2007-2008 financial crisis. We study the evolution of both employment and wages in a large sample of Italian workers followed for nine years after the start of the crisis. We rely on a...

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Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis

Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 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 Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States: The Long View, 1948–2013

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020

Over the 1948–2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete national income accounting system which integrates Jorgenson-Fraumeni human capital into the...

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