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We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...
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of unemployment and wages or wage incomes. Participation rates and migrations are also touched upon. An expectation that … equilibrium values of relative wages and rates of unemployment after a business cycle. …
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, sector division, unemployment and welfare. …
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Private consumption demand falls in response to increased unemployment risk during a recession, as households increase … unemployment risk is more important than realized unemployment shocks in accounting for durable expenditure dynamics during … recessions, while the opposite is true for nondurables. The importance of anticipation of future unemployment risk also means …
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We build a general equilibrium model in terms of a search and matching model with an informal sector. We consider the impact of the traditional policy instruments considered in the tax evasion literature, such as changes in the tax- and punishment system as well as changes in the employment...
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Childhood disability is a major health shock that affects parents early in their working life. We estimate its impact on parents’ career trajectories, their balance sheets, and major life decisions using detailed register data from Denmark. To identify the causal effect of childhood...
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This paper challenges the traditional view that unemployment is high because insiders determine the union wage. The … they experience relatively less unemployment. We assume that wages are determined by a monopoly union and further that a … of lower unemployment. …
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We analyse the effects active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have on unemployment in a union wage-setting framework … case where ALMPs increase match efficiency of the marginalized workers, and show that ALMPs may increase unemployment. …
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This paper examines the impact on unemployment, unemployment distribution, wages and welfare of Youth Unemployment …
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the impact of YUPs on skill division, unemployment distribution workers and aggregate unemployment. …
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