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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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Job search during the covid-19 crisis
Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2021
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the...
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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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What are the determinants of hiring? : the role of demand and supply factors
Eriksson, Stefan; Stadin, Karolina - 2015
In this paper, we study the relative importance of demand and supply factors for hiring. We use a search-matching model with imperfect competition in the product market to derive an equation for total hiring in a local labor market and estimate it on Swedish panel data. If product markets are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297441
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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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No activation without reconciliation? : the interplay between ALMP and ECEC in relation to women's employment, unemployment and inactivity in 30 OECD countries, 1985-2018
Nieuwenhuis, Rense - 2022
's employment rates, women's unemployment and inactivity rates in 30 OECD countries from 1985 to 2018. The article theorizes about … with low female unemployment rates, whereas ECEC also is associated with lower inactivity rates for women. There was … highest rates of women's employment, and the lowest rates of unemployment and inactivity, are found in countries with large …
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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...
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The heterogeneous earnings impact of job loss across workers, establishments, and markets
Athey, Susan; Simon, Lisa; Nordström Skans, Oskar; … - 2024
Using generalized random forests and rich Swedish administrative data, we show that the earnings effects of job displacement due to establishment closures are highly heterogeneous. We find as much heterogeneity within as across closing establishments, and within as across worker types defined by...
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