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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752694
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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Snower, Dennis J. - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080876
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Adjusting Labor Along The Intensive Margins
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635715
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Adjusting labor along the intensive margins
Biddle, Jeff; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2024
We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around ¼ of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584359
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Endogenous growth, skill obsolescence and output hysteresis in a New Keynesian model with unemployment
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Tesfaselassie, Mewael F. - 2020
labor market and skill obsolescence from long-term unemployment. The model can account for key features of the Great … aggregate demand raises unemployment and the training costs associated with skill obsolescence. Lower employment hinders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269664
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Labor force participation, job search effort and unemployment insurance in the laboratory
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Ring, Patrick - 2020
How the provision of unemployment benefits affects employment and unemployment is a debated issue. In this paper, we … job market with search effort and labor force participation decisions while varying the maximum length of unemployment … effort when unemployment benefits are extended. However, individuals are more likely to participate in the labor force and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179598
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280688
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296782
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The German Labor Market During the Great Recession : Shocks and Institutions
Gehrke, Britta - 2018
institutions (short-time work, government spending rules) and shocks (aggregate, labor market, and policy shocks) and to perform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909849
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Not Working at Work : Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity
Burda, Michael C. - 2015
-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016402