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Improving employment and earnings in 21st century labor markets : an introduction
Groshen, Erica L.; Holzer, Harry J. - 2019
What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, considers their causes and likely future trends; and then explores policies that might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138373
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Improving Employment and Earnings in 21st Century Labor Markets : An Introduction
Groshen, Erica - 2019
What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, considers their causes and likely future trends; and then explores policies that might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859277
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Insights from Behavioral Economics on How Labor Markets Work
Altman, Morris - 2014
I discuss some key issues raised by behavioral economics for better understanding the working of the labor market. Amongst the key points in this paper are: (i) a revised modeling of the labor supply curve, with a specific focus on the target income approach (ii) elaborating on the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050704
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Has the Dutch miracle come to an end?
Ours, Jan C. van - 2003
In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507711
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Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire : Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News
Ilut, Cosmin L. - 2017
Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972077
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Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire : Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News
Ilut, Cosmin L. - 2017
Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974129
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Firm Dynamics : Employment Dynamics Arising from Firm Growth and Contraction in Canada, 2001 to 2009
Rollin, Anne-Marie - 2012
This paper looks at annual changes in Canadian business sector employment from 2001 to 2009. This period encompasses an expansionary phase (2001 to 2008), followed by a recession (2008/2009). Firm-level data are used to decompose yearly net employment change into gross employment creation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104458
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Measures of Employment Turnover Post 2000 : Gross Employment Gains and Losses versus Net Employment Change
Rollin, Anne-Marie - 2012
This article in the Economic Insights series decomposes business-sector annual net employment growth into gross employment creation and gross employment destruction at the firm level. It is based on research carried out by Statistics Canada on the topic of business dynamics.The net employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104485
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Firm Dynamics : Employment Growth Rates of Small Versus Large Firms in Canada
Dixon, Jay - 2012
This paper examines whether Canadian firms of different sizes (in terms of employment) grow at different rates year-on-year. The data are from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program and cover the 1999-to-2008 period. The methodology is similar to that used by Haltiwanger,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101116
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Dignity of work and full employment
Simonazzi, Annamaria - In: PSL quarterly review 74 (2021) 297, pp. 115-126
The paper offers a brief reconstruction of the varying fortunes of the Charter of Workers' Rights, interpreted in light of the evolution of economic thinking on the role of the market - especially of the labor market - and on the reversal that has been made of the role of labor policy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013175064