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Labor Market Dynamics with Endogenous Labor Force Participation and On-the-Job Search

Tuzemen, Didem - 2013

Studies that incorporate endogenous labor force participation, and search and matching frictions in a real business …, unemployment is acyclical and highly positively correlated with vacancies. Based on the evidence that job-to-job flows are large in … the U.S. labor market, this paper enriches the three-state model with an on-the-job search mechanism which leads to job …

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The Expansion of Temporary Help Employment in the U.S., 1982-1992 : A Test of Alternative Economic Explanations

Golden, Lonnie M. - 1998

Employment in the temporary help supply (THS) industry more than tripled in the U.S. between 1982 and 1992. During that period, the variability and cyclical sensitivity of THS jobs, their average weekly hours and real hourly earnings were extraordinarily high. In addition, changes in temporary...

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The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction

Kuhn, Moritz; Manovskii; Qiu, Xincheng - 2022

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … separations and on-the-job search quantitatively accounts for all the documented empirical regularities. The model also …

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Chapter 41 Gross job flows

Davis, Steven J.; Haltiwanger, John - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 3, part B, (pp. 2711-2805). 1999

Market economies experience high rates of job creation and job destruction in almost every time period and sector. Each year, many businesses expand and many others contract. New businesses constantly enter, while others abruptly exit or gradually disappear. Amidst the turbulence of business...

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Cyclical Employment and Unemployment Flows in the U.S

Coleman, Thomas - 2010

Unemployment in the U.S. has risen dramatically since the start of the recession in December 2007, going from about 6.8 million people in May 2007 to over 14.6 million in June 2010. This is often spoken of as "losing 7.8 million jobs," but this is a terribly misleading view of the issue. The...

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Uncertainty shocks and employment fluctuations in Germany : the role of establishment size

Kovalenko, Tim - 2021

Zahlreiche Studien zeigen, dass sich Unsicherheitsschocks negativ auf den Arbeitsmarkt auswirken. Als Ursache für die … Transmission von Unsicherheitsschocks auf den Arbeitsmarkt werden in den meisten Studien die Anpassungskosten der Beschäftigung …

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Uncertainty shocks and employment fluctuations in Germany : the role of establishment size

Kovalenko, Tim - 2021

Uncertainty shocks are found to adversely affect labor market outcomes. Most studies attribute labor adjustments costs for the propagation of macroeconomic uncertainty to the labor market. Given that large establishments in Germany face higher labor adjustments cost, they should be affected more...

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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU

Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024

This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...

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Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States

Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville - 2017

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the fraction of the non-employed who are unemployed...

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Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States

Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville - 2017

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the fraction of the non-employed who are unemployed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956333