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Misclassification errors and the underestimation of US unemployment rates
Feng, Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao - 2010
Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current Population Surveys. Our closed-form identification of the...
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Layoff Tax and the Employment of the Elderly
Schnalzenberger, Mario; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when they give notice to employees aged 50 or more. We use data from Austrian social security records to...
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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment: Some cross-country evidence
Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2009
objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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EU employment dynamics: The pandemic years and beyond
Jestl, Stefan; Stehrer, Robert - 2021
difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …
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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective
Şahin, Afşin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, M. Hakan - 2013
This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment …, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500246
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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development
Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007
India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that `employment generation' has been the most important channel through which …
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The Economic Consequences of the Decline of Marriage
Bergmann, Barbara R. - 2008
The institution of marriage has served to funnel economic resources from fathers to children. Its continued decline in the countries of the developed world threatens the adequacy of the economic support of human reproduction, now increasingly provided by women. Its decline is also probably...
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The Effect of Joint Custody on Marriage and Divorce
Halla, Martin - 2009
Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different timing of reforms across states and the control group of...
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Behavioral responses to taxes: lessons from the EITC and labor supply
Hoynes, Hilary W.; Eissa, Nada - 2005
Twenty-two million families currently receive a total of $34 billion dollars in benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In fact, the EITC is the largest cash transfer program for lower-income families at the federal level. An unusual feature of the credit is its explicit goal to use...
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The impact of health and education on labor force participation in aging societies: Projections for the United States and Germany from a dynamic microsimulation
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - 2021
Using a highly stylized dynamic microsimulation model, we project the labor force of the United States up to the year 2060 and contrast these projections with projections for Germany to assess differential effects on outcomes The projections are consistent with the U S Census Bureau's and...
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