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Structural or cyclic? : labor markets in recessions : how should policy respond to higher unemployment?
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …
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Recruiting intensity : recruiting intensity is critical for understanding fluctuations in the labor market
Faberman, R. Jason - 2014
When hiring new workers, employers use a wide variety of different recruiting methods in addition to posting a vacancy announcement, such as adjusting education, experience or technical requirements, or offering higher wages. The intensity with which employers make use of these alternative...
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The labor market in Germany, 2000–2018 : the transformation of a notoriously rigid labor market into a role model of its own style is essentially complete
Schneider, Hilmar; Rinne, Ulf - 2019
instruments. Important developments since 2000 include steadily decreasing unemployment rates (since 2005), increasing …
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The labor market in the US, 2000-2018 : recovery from the Great Recession is complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage problems
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019
labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment from the depths of the …
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The labor market in Russia, 2000-2017 : low unemployment and high employment, but also low, volatile pay and high inequality characterize the Russian labor market
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E. - 2019
and unemployment showed little sensitivity. Workers have paid the price for this rather stable employment situation in the …
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The labor market in the US, 2000-2016 : recovery from the Great Recession is essentially complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage issues
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2017
labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the nearly full recovery of unemployment from the depths …
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Relative deprivation in the labor market : the choice of reference group crucially determines subjective deprivation and thus affects labor market behavior
Verme, Paolo - 2017
Why do different population groups (e.g. rural vs. urban, youth vs. elderly and men vs. women) experience the same objective labor status differently? One hypothesis is that people are more concerned with relative deprivation than objective deprivation and they value their own status relative to...
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The effects of public sector employment on the economy : the size and wage level of the public sector affect overall employment volatility and the economy
Caponi, Vincenzo - 2017
Public sector jobs are created because governments opt to provide goods and services produced directly by public employees. Governments, however, may also choose to regulate the size of the public sector in order to stabilize targeted national employment levels. However, economic research...
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How do social networks affect labor markets? : job-referral networks can make labor markets more productive and efficient but may increase the importance of luck in job matches
Schmutte, Ian - 2016
Social networks, or “job-referral” networks, can help make labor markets become more efficient. Outside the firm, they help workers obtain employment after displacement and secure higher-paying jobs. They can also match highly-skilled workers to more productive employment. Inside the firm,...
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The labor market in Finland, 2000–2018 : the economy has finally started to recover from an almost decadelong economic stagnation
Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna - 2020
finances, but high overall unemployment and a large share of the long-term unemployed are serious concerns. …
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