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What shifts did COVID-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?

Baert, Stijn - 2021

policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this letter focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …

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Product market imperfections and employment dynamics

Carlsson, Mikael; Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2011 - rev.

How important is imperfect competition in the product market for employment dynamics? To investigate this, we formulate a theoretical model of employment adjustment with imperfect competition in the product market, search frictions, and convex adjustment costs. From this model, we derive a...

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What factors contributed to changes in employment during and after the Great Recession?

Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-28

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

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Teaching labor laws: evidence from a randomized control trial in South Africa

Bertrand, Marianne; Crépon, Bruno - 2020

We assess whether imperfect knowledge of labor regulation hinders job creation at small and medium-sized firms. We partner with a labor law expert that provides information about labor regulation via newsletters and access to a specialized website. We randomly assign 1800 firms to get access to...

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Job search during the COVID-19 crisis

Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2020

This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...

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Job search during the covid-19 crisis

Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2021

This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the...

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The effects of reforming a federal employment agency on labor demand

Kraft, Kornelius; Lammers, Alexander - 2021

In this paper we report the results of an empirical study on the employment growth effects of a policy intervention, explicitly aimed at increasing placement efficiency of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany. We use the Hartz III reform in the year 2004 as an exogenous intervention that...

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The impact of the Covid‑19 pandemic on worker careers : do different job opportunities matter?

Buhmann, Mara; Pohlan, Laura; Roth, Duncan - 2025

unemployment on workers' careers. Compared to individuals who became unemployed under more benign conditions, we find greater and …

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on worker careers : do different job opportunities matter?

Buhmann, Mara; Pohlan, Laura; Roth, Duncan - 2025

unemployment on workers’ careers. Compared to individuals who became unemployed under more benign conditions, we find greater and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015396888

Economic shocks and worker careers : has the COVID-19 pandemic affected transitions out of unemployment?

Buhmann, Mara; Pohlan, Laura; Roth, Duncan - 2024

Temporary economic shocks can have enduring effects on individuals and their career trajectories. This paper investigates the labour market effects of the Covid- 19 pandemic on newly unemployed individuals, the underlying mechanisms as well as occupation-specific effect heterogeneity. The...

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