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The intergenerational correlation of employment : is there a role for work culture?
Galassi, Gabriela; Koll, David; Mayr, Lukas - 2019
We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United States, linking data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the NLSY79 Children and Young Adults. After controlling for ability, education and wealth, a...
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Time variation in Okun's law : a Canada and US comparison
Beaton, Kimberly - 2010
unemployment rate to movements in output growth increasing recently over time in both Canada and the United States. -- Business …
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Labor market participation, unemployment and monetary policy
Campolmi, Alessia; Gnocchi, Stefano - 2014
We incorporate a participation decision in a standard New Keynesian model with matching frictions and show that treating the labor force as constant leads to incorrect evaluation of alternative policies. We also show that the presence of a participation margin mitigates the Shimer critique.
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Job applications and labour market flows
Birinci, Serdar; See, Kurt; Wee, Shu Lin - 2021 - Last updated: October 12, 2021
generate the trends in unemployment flows. …
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The trend unemployment rate in Canada : searching for the unobservable
Brouillette, Dany; Robitaille, Marie-Noëlle; … - 2019
In this paper, we assess several methods that have been used to measure the Canadian trend unemployment rate (TUR). We … extent to which methods provide explanations for changes in trend unemployment; (ii) whether revisions to unemployment gap … (UGAP, the difference between the actual unemployment rate and TUR) estimates are well behaved; (iii) if UGAPs provide …
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From he-cession to she-stimulus? : the labor market impact of fiscal policy across gender
Bonk, Alica Ida; Simon, Laure - 2021 - Last updated: September 9, 2021
Men, especially those that are young and less educated, typically bear the brunt of recessions because of the stronger cyclicality of their employment and wages relative to women's. We study the extent to which fiscal policy may offset or worsen these asymmetric effects across gender. Using...
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Local labor markets in Canada and the United States
Albouy, David; Chernoff, Alex; Lutz, Chandler; Warman, Casey - 2019
We examine local labor markets in the United States and Canada from 1990 to 2011 using comparable household and business data. Wage levels and inequality rise with city population in both countries, albeit less in Canada. Neither country saw wage levels converge despite contrasting migration...
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Trends in U.S. hours and the labor wedge
Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2010
From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...
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The carrot and the stick : the business cycle Implications of incentive pay in the labor search model
Champagne, Julien - 2015
This paper considers a real business cycle model with labor search frictions where two types of incentive pay are explicitly introduced following the insights from the micro literature on performance pay (e.g. Lazear, 1986). While in both schemes workers and firms negotiate ahead of time-t...
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Technology shocks, labour mobility and aggregate fluctuations
Hauser, Daniela - 2014
We provide evidence regarding the dynamic behaviour of net labour flows across U.S. states in response to a positive technology shock. Technology shocks are identified as disturbances that increase relative state productivity in the long run for 226 state pairs, encompassing 80 per cent of...
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