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hours reductions. In a rapidly evolving economic crisis there is a need for timely information to assess labour market … contained in the UK Labour Force Survey is tracked for several labour market outcomes from the first week of 2020 and onward as … incidence of a particular outcome differs from its weekly norm. It seems that the most common metrics of labour market …
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productivity using firm-level information from Hungary, 1986-99. Its main conclusion is that skills obsolescence was, and still is … 1989 and 1992. This, the paper argues, was just a mirror image of the collapse of demand for unskilled labor in a period of … deep crisis when technological change was minimal, and the forces of the market just started to work. When market …
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seen before the recession. -- labour market ; recession ; unemployment ; wages …. Unemployment had reached its lowest levels for thirty years going in to the latest recession and has also remained relatively … subdued through the downturn, certainly compared to previous recessions. A combination of lower inflow rates into unemployment …
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been met by in–flows of cross–border workers and, to a lesser extent, immigration. Unemployment has remained low compared … picture masks weaknesses in the design of labour market institutions and social transfers that reduce incentives to work for … provided by existing labour market institutions could make adjustment to changed economic prospects more difficult. The …
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In this paper, we shed light on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market, and how they have evolved …, deaths, and closure measures. We find that the labor market recovery of the summer and early fall stagnated in late fall and … policy options for states to repair their labor markets. …
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and is shared very unequally in the labor force. This counters the established view that unemployment is a small risk …After a decade of structural reforms, unemployment rates have tripled in Argentina. This paper is concerned with the … measurement of unemployment risk and its distribution. We show the importance of considering re-incidence in the measurement of …
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and is shared very unequally in the labor force. This counters the established view that unemployment is a small risk …After a decade of structural reforms, unemployment rates have tripled in Argentina. This paper is concerned with the … measurement of unemployment risk and its distribution. We show the importance of considering re-incidence in the measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113286
is to understand and quantify the forces behind this empirical regularity. We propose a structural model of the labor … market with (i) on-the-job search, (ii) general human capital, and (iii) firmspecific human capital. Jobs are destroyed at an …
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unemployment duration among UI claimants observed in these cases is due to the extended benefits or to the adverse labor market …) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks …Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …
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We study the character of self-employment, drawing upon household survey evidence from six transition economies. Multinomial-logit analysis distinguishing employers from own-account self-employed and comparing both groups to employees and unemployed finds that own-account status is intermediate...
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