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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500194
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Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2012
This paper shows that the structural breaks are an important characteristic of the monthly labor force participation rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the empirical specifications of fractionally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500218
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Labor-force participation rates and the informal value of unemployment rates: Evidence from disaggregated US data
Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - 2010
The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned because of a unit root in the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in joblessness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321459
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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998
of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321785
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Technology, jobs and inequality: Evidence from India's manufacturing sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2016
Faced with easier access to foreign technology and imported capital goods, firms in India's organised manufacturing sector adopted advanced techniques of production leading to increasing automation and a rise in the capital intensity of production. This has raised much concern about the ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807719
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Seeking similarity: How immigrants and natives manage at the labor market
Åslund, Olof; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
We show that immigrant managers are substantially more likely to hire immigrants than are native managers. The finding holds when comparing establishments in the same 5-digit industry and location, when comparing different establishments within the same firm, when analyzing establishments that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273958
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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011
industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287854
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273947
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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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Decomposing changes in the aggregate labor force participation rate
Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2009
This paper presents a simple methodology for decomposing changes in the aggregate labor force participation rate (LFPR) over time into demographic group changes in labor force participation behavior and in population share. The purpose is to identify the relative importance of behavioral changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292316