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Kline, Patrick - 2013

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard spatial equilibrium models with perfectly competitive labor and land markets, local job creation efforts are distortionary. We develop a stylized model of frictional local labor...

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …

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For Better or for Worse, But How About a Recession?

Arkes, Jeremy - 2010

In light of the current economic crisis, we estimate hazard models of divorce to determine how state and national unemployment rates affect the likelihood of divorce. With 89,340 observations over the 1978-2006 period for 7633 couples from the 1979 NLSY, we find mixed evidence on whether...

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Employment, Unemployment and Demand Shifts in Local Labor Markets

Holzer, Harry J. - 2011

This paper analyzes the effects of demand shifts within and between local labor markets on unemployment and employment … between-industry and within-industry components. Some firm-level evidence on job applicants, training and wage and employment … large fractions of the observed variation in unemployment and employment rate levels and changes across markets. Within …

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Duration Dependence and Labor Market Conditions : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

Kroft, Kory - 2012

This paper studies the role of employer behavior in generating "negative duration dependence" -- the adverse effect of a longer unemployment spell -- by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results indicate that the likelihood of receiving a callback for an...

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Amerisclerosis? the Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence

Coibion, Olivier - 2013

The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...

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Social Capital and Labor Market Networks

Asquith, Brian - 2019

We explore the links between social capital and labor market networks at the neighborhood level. We harness rich data taken from multiple sources, including matched employer-employee data with which we measure the strength of labor market networks, data on behavior such as voting patterns that...

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Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness : The Role of Spatial Mismatch

Andersson, Fredrik - 2014

force attachment searching for employment after being subject to a mass layoff - thereby focusing on a group of job …

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Structural/Frictional and Demand-Deficient Unemployment in Local Labor Markets

Holzer, Harry J. - 2021

This paper uses data on unemployment rates and job vacancy rates to measure structural/frictional and demand-deficient components of unemployment rate differences across local labor markets. Data on occupational and industrial distributions of unemployed workers and vacant jobs, as well as on...

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The Thick Market Effect on Local Unemployment Rate Fluctuations

Gan, Li; Zhang, Qinghua - 2021

This paper studies how the thick market effect influences local unemployment rate fluctuations. The paper presents a model to demonstrate that the average matching quality improves as the number of workers and firms increases. Unemployed workers accumulate in a city until the local labor market...

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