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depreciation upon job loss—and its interaction with labor market institutions. We have three main results, based on a life … between turbulence and institutions explains most of the reduction in labor force participation among older workers in Europe … over this period, but ultimately explains little of the rise in unemployment. Third, only a small share of the increase in …
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dynamic simulations that account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our results … productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries. …
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The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it. After evaluating the impact of the health crisis at the individual level, this study decomposes employment losses into persistent and transitory components using the observed...
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for immigrants than for natives: a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a 0.61 and 0 …
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unemployment rates while evaluating the tightness of the labor market. …
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unemployment, vacancies and industrial production. …
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Human capital is a vital component in the production process, so the size of the labor force can profoundly affect the potential for economic growth. In the United States, the overall labor force participation rate (LFPR)the percent of the population supplying labor to the marketbegan to grow in...
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This paper evaluates the effects for the Spanish case of allowing greater flexibility regarding the weekly hours worked on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross-sectional distribution of workweeks across plants, as well as...
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employment and female economic inactivity. The analysis is based on macro data and is focused on the years 2016-2019. To examine … unemployment components, analysis of changes in the structure of nonparticipants and the shift-share method. Considering that the …
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test the explanatory power of the lockdown index for short-time work and unemployment increases by canton and industry …
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