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Does Labor Supply Matter During a Recession? Evidence from the Seasonal Cycle

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2010

Every year has large demand and supply shifts associated with the seasons, regardless of the phase of the business cycle. Based on measures dating back to the 1940s, the seasonal shifts reject the hypotheses that demand shifts affect employment outcomes significantly more in recession years than...

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The Arra : Some Unpleasant Welfare Arithmetic

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2012

foregone unemployment insurance about equally erode the rewards from retaining a job, or starting a new one …

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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the …

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The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2012

This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We...

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A Three State Model of Worker Flows in General Equilibrium

Krusell, Per - 2010

We develop a simple model featuring search frictions and a nondegenerate labor supply decision along the extensive margin. The model is a standard version of the neoclassical growth model with indivisible labor with idiosyncratic shocks and frictions characterized by employment loss and...

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Fear, Unemployment and Migration

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

the flow of workers from Eastern Europe, the fear of unemployment has risen in the UK which appears to have contained wage … rate of unemployment …

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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages : Evidence from California

Peri, Giovanni - 2007

As of 2004 California employed almost 30% of all foreign born workers in the U.S. and was the state with the largest percentage of immigrants in the labor force. It received a very large number of uneducated immigrants so that two thirds of workers with no schooling degree in California were...

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Wage Risk and Employment Risk Over the Life Cycle

Low, Hamish - 2010

productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial) insurance against employment risk …

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Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model

Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2010

This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions...

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Spill-Overs from Good Jobs

Beaudry, Paul - 2010

Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The answer to this question is central to a proper assessment of many trade and industrial policies. In this paper, we explore this question by examining how predictable changes in...

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