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The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-Time Employment

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 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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Life-Cycle Worker Flows and Cross-Country Differences in Aggregate Employment

Créchet, Jonathan; Lalé, Etienne; Tarasonis, Linas - 2024

document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …

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Assessing Labor Market Conditions in Canada with Public-Use Microdata

Lalé, Etienne - 2024

Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … of job search from inactivity compared to unemployment. This factor provides enough structure to prevent arbitrary … splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a …

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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...

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Search and Multiple Jobholding

Lalé, Etienne - 2019

A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...

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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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Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers

Lalé, Etienne - 2016

This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …

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When Short-Time Work Works

Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018

Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...

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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks

Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - 2002

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

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Is short-time work a good method to keep unemployment down?

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - 2011

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

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