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Germany and the United States in coronavirus distress : internal versus external labour market flexibility
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22
Germany and the United States pursued different economic strategies to minimise the impact of the Coronavirus Crisis on … the labour market. Germany focused on safeguarding existing jobs through the use of internal flexibility measures … contrasting it with the chosen strategy in the United States. In Germany, temporary cyclical reductions in working hours are …
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Strategic corporate layoffs
Agarwal, Ruchir; Kolev, Julian - 2016
Firms in the S and P 500 often announce layoffs within days of one another, despite the fact that the average S and P 500 constituent announces layoffs once every 5 years. By contrast, similarsized privately-held firms do not behave in this way. This paper provides empirical evidence that such...
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Essays on financial economics and macroeconomics
Agarwal, Ruchir - 2012
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Essays in finance and innovation
Kolev, Julian - 2012
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Firing versus continuing employment if an economic setback is expected
Göcke, Matthias - 2009
A simple model evaluating a firm’s optimal employment reaction to an imminent recession is presented. Firing costs shelter employment – and this effect is typically amplified by uncertainty due to an option value of waiting. However, this job protection effect is reduced if the expected...
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The effect of job loss on body weight during an economic collapse
Jónsdóttir, Sif; Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 15 (2014) 6, pp. 567-576
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An econometric study of quits rate trends in the United States since the Great Recession : cyclical movement or structural change?
Bruneel, Didier; Juneau, Stephen; Wang, Simiao - In: Business economics : the journal of the National … 49 (2014) 4, pp. 211-226
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Spending after Job Loss from the Great Recession through COVID-19 : The Roles of Financial Health, Race, and Policy
Greig, Fiona; Wheat, Chris; Eckerd, George; O'Brien, Melissa - 2021
Using an administrative dataset covering 2 million job loss events we analyze the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on spending from 2008 to 2020. We find that during the Great Recession spending cuts after job loss were deeper than in the subsequent expansion, but in the COVID-19...
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Job loss at home : children's school performance during the Great Recession
Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 3, pp. 243-286
This paper studies the intergenerational impact of parental job loss on school performance during the Great Recession in Spain. Collecting data through parental surveys in a school in the province of Barcelona, I obtain information about the parental labour market status before and after the...
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Long-run effects of severe economic recessions on male BMI trajectories and health behaviors
Nizalova, Olena; Norton, Edward C. - 2017
With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this paper aims to address. We turn to Ukraine's experience...
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