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Neighbourhood effects, housing tenure, and individual employment outcomes
Manley, David; Harn, Maarten van - 2010
This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less likely to enter work if they are unemployed and more likely to lose their job if they are employed. The main challenge in the neighbourhood effects literature is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154556
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The scarring effect of unemployment from the early '90s to the Great Recession
Tumino, Alberto - 2015
This paper addresses two issues of great importance in the current economic climate. First, it analyses the extent to which unemployment experiences have a scarring effect on British men during the Great Recession. Second, it provides an insight into the relation between true state dependence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504570
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Neighbourhood Effects, Housing Tenure, and Individual Employment Outcomes
Manley, David - 2010
This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less likely to enter work if they are unemployed and more likely to lose their job if they are employed. The main challenge in the neighbourhood effects literature is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136710
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Age effects in Swedish local labour markets
Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2002
The paper studies the effects of changes in the age structure on aggregate labour market performance using a panel of Swedish local labour markets. The methodology of Shimer (2001) is used for studying the effects of youth cohort size and is extended to include the full age distribution. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575197
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Customer discrimination and employment outcomes : theory and evidence from the French labor market
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Decreuse, Bruno; Laouénan, Morgane - 2014
under-representation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector matching model with ethnic sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350347
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Effects of the minimum wage on US county labor markets
Otterby, Dawn; Crawley, Andrew; Gabe, Todd M. - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 5, pp. 1-10
This study investigates the impacts of the minimum wage on U.S. regional labor markets. Using ten years of county-level data, we examine the relationship between the minimum wage and several key components of the labor market. Following past research, the number of people in the labor force is...
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The Dynamics of Job Creation and Destruction for University Graduates: Why a Rising Unemployment Rate Can Be Misleading
Ferreira, Priscila; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2002
This study uses a matched employer-employee data set on the Portuguese economy to analyze systematic information on job creation and job destruction for university graduates, compared to other groups of workers. We find that the unemployment rate can provide a misleading idea of the dynamics in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262460
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The dynamics of job creation and destruction for university graduates : why a rising unemployment rate can be misleading
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Ferreira, Priscila - 2002
This study uses a matched employer-employee data set on the Portuguese economy to analyze systematic information on job creation and job destruction for university graduates, compared to other groups of workers. We find that the unemployment rate can provide a misleading idea of the dynamics in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414508
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Evaluating the Role of Labor Market Mismatch in Rising Unemployment
Barlevy, Gadi - 2011
unemployment. Using a matching function approach, the author finds that such a shock implies an unemployment rate of no more than 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118496
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Dynamic Beveridge Curve Accounting
Ahn, Hie Joo - 2020
unemployment. Using a standard model, we show that three factors can shift the Beveridge curve: reduced-form matching efficiency … pre-2010 period to the post-2010 period, a fall in matching efficiency and out-of-steady-state dynamics both pushed the … shift in vacancies given unemployment. In previous recessions changes in matching efficiency were relatively unimportant …
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