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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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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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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
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Slow Recovery to Nowhere? A Sectoral View of Labor Markets in Advanced Economies
Loungani, Prakash - 2012
This paper documents the uneven impacts of technological change and trade on labor markets in advanced economies. Over the past 20 years, these trends have lifted living standards in emerging markets and developing economies and everywhere. In advanced economies, technological innovation and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113153
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The labor market in the US : 2000-2020 : Covid-19 ended the longest US economic expansion, pushing unemployment to its highest level with a slow and incomplete recovery
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
remarkable drop in the labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254378
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The labor market in the US, 2000-2016 : recovery from the Great Recession is essentially complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage issues
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2017
labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the nearly full recovery of unemployment from the depths …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011642273
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Okun's Law : fit at 50?
Ball, Laurence M.; Leigh, Daniel; Loungani, Prakash - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 49 (2017) 7, pp. 1413-1441
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946630
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The labor market in the US, 2000-2018 : recovery from the Great Recession is complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage problems
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019
labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment from the depths of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012425