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employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …
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of other employment policies. …
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demand shocks lower wages, employment and increase unemployment under equilibrium conditions. Furthermore, the results show … market although the return to pre-shock employment level depends on a number of factors related to the subsidy (such as …
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This paper introduces a new argument into the theoretical literature on labor market effects of changes in working hours and labor force participation. We advance a general equilibrium model in which increased labor supply reduces unskilled unemployment via consumer demand: longer work hours and...
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How much did shocks to household credit supply reduce employment in the Great Recession? To answer this question, I … decline in credit supply to households reduced home purchase and mortgage refinance credit by 7 and 20 percent, and employment … by 3 percent. In partial equilibrium, the household credit channel implies employment losses equal to at least 20 percent …
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80% of their pre-crisis level. Also, data suggest that the increase in employment in May 2020 is due to some of those … waiting to be recalled re-entering employment. These patterns suggest that a reasonably quick rebound of the labour market may …
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80 percent of their pre-crisis level. Also, data suggest that the increase in employment in May 2020 is due to some of … those waiting to be recalled re-entering employment. These patterns suggest that the labour market might rebound quickly …
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per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …
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Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for...
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