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Employment protection and labour market performance in European Union countries during the Great Recession

Ferreiro Aparicio, Jesús; Gómez, Carmen - 2018

-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …

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The ins and outs of involuntary part-time employment

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2018

We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...

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The Cyclical Behaviour of Job and Worker Flows

Tattara, Giuseppe; Valentini, Marco - 2007

countercyclical. Separations increase in upswing, following the accession increase, and decline in recession. Unemployment during …

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Labor Force Exiters Around Recessions : Who are They?

Gregory, Victoria - 2022

This paper identifies workers who experience a job separation during a recession and tracks their labor force status in the following year using the Current Population Survey. Workers are classified as exiters if they leave the labor force shortly after their job loss and non-exiters if they do...

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Chapter 7. Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market

Rogerson, Richard; Shimer, Robert - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 619-700). 2011

This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. We first consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We...

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Unemployment : Structural vs. Cyclical – and Globalization's Adverse Impact

Wind, Serge L. - 2011

The U.S. economy continues to be characterized by a persistently-high rate of unemployment, with at least another three … years before attainment of the pre-recession unemployment rate.Six significant structural trends are identified and their … force”. And the detrimental effect of long-term unemployment is a structural impediment to becoming well-positioned to …

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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Snower, Dennis J. - 2013

This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...

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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Dixon, Robert J. - 2014

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Dixon, Robert J. - 2014

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drives the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Dixon, Robert J. - 2014

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052699