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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK

Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022

suggests that increased inactivity among older workers, the so called She-cession (particularly in the US) and shifting worker …

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The Distributional Impact of Recessions : The Global Financial Crisis and the Pandemic Recession

Shibata, Ippei - 2020

Using the U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the Pandemic Crisis and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where individuals interact to consume goods), 'teleworkable'...

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Is Labor Market Mismatch a Big Deal in Japan?

Shibata, Ippei - 2013

Despite its low unemployment rate, the recent shift in the Japanese Beveridge curveindicates increased labor mismatch …

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Labor Market Dynamics : A Hidden Markov Approach

Shibata, Ippei - 2020

This paper proposes a hidden state Markov model (HMM) that incorporates workers' unobserved labor market attachment into the analysis of labor market dynamics. Unlike previous literature, which typically assumes that a worker's observed labor force status follows a first-order Markov process,...

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Are Labor Market Indicators Telling the Truth? Role of Measurement Error in the U.S. Current Population Survey

Shibata, Ippei - 2019

approach, the unemployment rate is on average 0.8 percentage points (ppts) higher than the official unemployment rate, with a …-cycle fluctuations in the unemployment rate from job separation, job finding, and participation. Correcting for misclassification changes … unemployment fluctuations, while participation accounts for fewer. The methodology I propose can be applied to any other labor …

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From Polluting to Green Jobs : A Seamless Transition in the U.S.?

Bergant, Katharina; Mano, Rui C.; Shibata, Ippei - 2022

What are the implications of the needed climate transition for the potential reallocation of the U.S. labor force? This paper dissects green and polluting jobs in the United States across local labor markets, industries and at the household-level. We find that geography alone is not a major...

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Gender and Employment in the COVID-19 Recession : Evidence on “She-Cessions”

Bluedorn, John C.; Caselli, Francesca; Hansen, Niels-Jakob - 2022

Early evidence on the pandemic’s effects pointed to women’s employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to call a “she-cession.” This paper documents the extent and persistence of this phenomenon in a quarterly sample of 38 advanced and emerging market economies. We show...

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Labor Market Reform Options to Boost Employment in South Africa

Duval, Romain; Shibata, Ippei; Ji, Yi - 2022

find much scope for improving the design of key labor market institutions—including collective bargaining and employment …

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Did the Covid-19 Recession Increase the Demand for Digital Occupations in the United States? Evidence from Employment and Vacancies Data

Soh, Jiaming; Oikonomou, Myrto; Pizzinelli, Carlo; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether the Covid-19 recession led to an increase in demand for digital occupations in the United States. Using O*NET to capture the digital content of occupations, we find that regions that were hit harder by the Covid-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the...

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Did the COVID-19 Recession Increase the Demand for Digital Occupations in the United States? Evidence from Employment and Vacancies Data

Soh, Jiaming; Oikonomou, Myrto; Pizzinelli, Carlo; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 recession led to an increase in demand for digital occupations in the United States. Using O*NET to capture the digital content of occupations, we find that regions that were hit harder by the COVID-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244425