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What do participation fluctuations tell us about labor supply elasticities?

Häfke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 2011

participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the variability of unemployment and participation, and the negative … correlation of unemployment and GDP, implies an aggregate labor supply elasticity along the extensive margin of around 0.3 for men …

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Fluctuations in hours of work and employment across age and gender

Laroque, Guy; Osotimehin, Sophie - 2014

This paper documents the heterogeneity in labor market volatility across ages and gender in the United States over 1976-2014. We separate fluctuations in hours worked into fluctuations in the average number of hours per worker (the intensive margin) and fluctuations in the number of individuals...

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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle : evidence from US microdata

Hotchkiss, Julie L. (contributor); … - 2006

unemployment rates. Using U.S. data, we find that individual labor force participation responds asymmetrically to changes in local … labor market conditions, consistent with the pattern of movements in the aggregate unemployment rate. Differences in the …. -- Asymmetric labor force participation decision ; unemployment rate ; business cycle ; gender ; education ; age …

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Did a successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic come at a cost? : impacts of the outbreak on employment outcomes in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …

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Did a successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic come at a cost? : impacts of the outbreak on employment outcomes in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391350

Australian labour force participation: historical trends and future prospects

Gustafsson, Linus - 2021

Over the past 40 years, Australia has experienced significant changes to the proportion of the population that is attached to its labour market. From the early 1980s, the aggregate labour force participation rate rose steadily, climbing from around 60 per cent in 1983 to almost 66 per cent in...

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Productivity and employment in APAC economies : a comparison with the EU using firm-level information

Di Mauro, Filippo; Hoang, Minh Duy; Morgan, Peter J. - 2021

This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our...

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The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Delaporte, Isaure; Escobar, Julia; Peña, Werner - 2021 - Current version: April 15, 2021

This paper estimates the potential distributional consequences of the first phase of the COVID-19 lockdowns on poverty and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We estimate the share of individuals that are potentially able to remain active under the...

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Gender, selection into employment, and the wage impact of immigration

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2021

Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted by immigrants and where presumably the wage did not drop. This paper argues that the wage change observed in the...

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The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Delaporte, Isaure; Escobar, Julia; Peña, Werner - 2020

This paper evaluates the distributional consequences of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We gather detailed information from national laws and decrees on the strictness and the duration of...

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