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Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms : A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution
Haanwinckel, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a general equilibrium framework with firm and worker heterogeneity, monopsony power, and task-based production to quantify the long-run effects of education, biased demand shocks, and minimum wage. I take it to Brazilian data for 1998 and 2012 and find that (i) supply and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322706
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Bank Ownership, Lending, and Local Economic Performance During the 2008-2010 Financial Crisis
Coleman, Nicholas - 2014
banks can help mitigate financial shocks. This paper examines the role of Brazil's government banks in preventing a … recession during the 2008-2010 financial crisis. Government banks in Brazil provided more credit, which offset declines in … lending by private banks. Areas in Brazil with a high share of government banks experienced increases in lending, production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055701
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Who suffers during recessions in Brazil?
Cravo, Túlio; Schimanski, Caroline - 2019
setting, controlling for other characteristics. Using data from Brazil’s monthly PME employment surveys between 2002 and 2016 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991880
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Entry, Variable Markups, and Business Cycles
Gamber, William L. - 2022
The creation of new businesses declines in recessions. In this paper, I study the effects of pro-cyclical business formation on aggregate employment in a general equilibrium model of firm dynamics. The key features of the model are that the elasticity of demand faced by firms falls with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309613
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Young people and the Great Recession
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2011
This article reviews the effects of the Great Recession on youth labour markets. We argue that young people aged 16-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as case studies, we analyse youth unemployment using microdata. We argue that there is convincing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009259467
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Two-tier labor markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain
Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 2010
This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312950
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Two-tier labor markets in the great recession : France vs. Spain
Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 2010
This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008757525
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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain
Bentolila, Samuel - 2010
This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135650
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Young People and the Great Recession
Bell, David N.F. - 2011
This article reviews the effects of the Great Recession on youth labour markets. We argue that young people aged 16-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as case studies, we analyse youth unemployment using microdata. We argue that there is convincing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125470
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Labor Market Issues in the Caribbean : Scope to Mobilize Employment Growth
Kandil, Magda - 2014
The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth to major sources of labor market determinants, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049805