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Leduc, Sylvain; Liu, Zheng - 2019

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A high-resolution lead-lag analysis of US GDP, employment, and unemployment 1977-2021 : Okun's law and the puzzle of jobless recovery

Seip, Knut Lehre; Zhang, Dan - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 10, pp. 1-16

Okun's law is formulated as the ratio between GDP and unemployment (UE): β = f(GDP/UE). It is used to investigate the …

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Financial shocks and the cyclical behavior of skilled and unskilled unemployment

Lopez, Jose Ignacio; Olivella Moppett, Virginia - 2014

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Task content and job losses in the Great Lockdown

Petroulakis, Filippos - 2020

I examine the short-term labor market effects of the Great Lockdown in the United States. I analyze job losses by task content (Acemoglu & Autor 2011), and show that they follow underlying trends; jobs with a high non-routine content are especially well-protected, even if they are not...

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The German labor market during the Great Recession : shocks and institutions

Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2017

This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...

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Do unemployment benefit extensions explain the emergence of jobless recoveries?

Mitman, Kurt; Rabinovich, Stanislav - 2019

Countercyclical unemployment benefit extensions in the United States act as a propagation mechanism, contributing to … both the high persistence of unemployment and its weak correlation with productivity. We show this by modifying an … otherwise standard frictional model of the labor market to incorporate a stochastic and state-dependent process for unemployment …

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