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Multiple job holding, local labor markets, and the business cycle

Hirsch, Barry T.; Husain, Muhammad M.; Winters, John V. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-29

About 5 % of US workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the business cycle …. Theory is ambiguous and prior literature is not fully conclusive. We examine the relationship between multiple job holding …

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First fired, first hired? Business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions

Xu, Huanan - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 19, pp. 1-36

monthly transitions among employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. Immigrants are found to be first fired and first …

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Learning lessons from the economic crisis in self-employment

Iyke, Bernard Njindan; Ho, Sin-yu - In: Contemporary Economics 14 (2020) 1, pp. 3-21

The main objective of this article is to test the hypothesis that the economic crisis has resulted in significant changes in the socioeconomic and labor profile of the new self-employed in Spain between 2008 and 2013. Additionally, it is intended to determine if there are homogeneous profiles of...

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