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The heterogeneous labor market impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic
Matias, Guido; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2020
We study the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic's impacts on employment. Using CPS data on stocks and flows, we show that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Although employment losses have been widespread, they have been substantially larger in lower-paying...
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The impact of nurse turnover on quality of care and mortality in nursing homes : eevidence from the Great Recession
Akosa Antwi, Yaa; Bowblis, John R. - 2016
instrumental variable estimation that uses the unemployment rate as an instrument for nursing turnover. We find that ignoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412301
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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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Long social distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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Exploring Okun's law asymmetry : an endogenous threshold LSTR approach
Christopulos, Dēmētrēs K.; McAdam, Peter; Tzavalis, Elias - 2019
-related variables accounts for changes (rises) in the Okun's parameter in the US in recent decades. Accordingly, the unemployment gap is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012135950
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Labour tax reforms, cross-country coordination and the monetary policy stance in the euro area : a structural model-based approach
Jacquinot, Pascal; Lozej, Matija; Pisani, Massimiliano - 2018
We evaluate the effects of permanently reducing labour tax rates in the euro area (EA) by simulating a large-scale open economy dynamic general equilibrium model. The model features the EA as a monetary union, split in two regions (Home and the rest of the EA - REA), the US, and the rest of the...
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Hysteresis in unemployment : evidence from OECD estimates of the natural rate
Ball, Laurence M.; Onken, Joern - 2021
This paper studies the dynamics of unemployment (u) and its natural rate (u*), with u* measured by real-time estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705521
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Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition : a comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; … - 2006
This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …
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The COVID-19 pandemic's evolving impacts on the labor market: who's been hurt and what we should do
Hershbein, Brad; Holzer, Harry J. - 2021
In this paper, we shed light on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market, and how they have evolved over most of the year 2020. Relying primarily on microdata from the CPS and state-level data on virus caseloads, mortality, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012436380
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Macroeconomic stabilisation properties of a euro area unemployment insurance scheme
Kaufmann, Christoph; Attinasi, Maria Grazia; … - 2020
supranational unemployment insurance scheme. The model is calibrated to the euro area's core and periphery and features a rich …-regional correlation of unemployment and in ation increases by up to 52% and 27%, respectively, compared to the decentralised setting. The …
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