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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080876
worker who experiences a one-percentage-point higher unemployment rate while the worker is 16-24 years old has a 0 ….14 percentage-point higher unemployment rate at ages 25-29 and 0.03 percentage points higher at ages 30-34. The persistence of this …
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This paper studies the dynamics of unemployment (u) and its natural rate (u*), with u* measured by real-time estimates …
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labor market and skill obsolescence from long-term unemployment. The model can account for key features of the Great … aggregate demand raises unemployment and the training costs associated with skill obsolescence. Lower employment hinders …
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The focus of our study is on determining whether unemployment rates in 8 New Industrialized Economies conform to the … findings and confirms hysteresis in all unemployment rates except for Asian economies/countries of Thailand and the Philippines. …
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unemployment, several European economies display highly persistent unemployment dynamics. The theory of hysteresis challenges this … strong empirical evidence of unemployment hysteresis in advanced economies since the 1990s. Relying on an identification … amplify the effects of demand shocks. Our results indicate that strengthening labor market institutions that promote a faster …
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In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular … employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders …. We found evidence in favor of mean reversion in the case of female unemployment and this happens for all the groups of …
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Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …
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This paper analyses the influence of norms of fairness on wage formation. Fairness is defined by "real-wage" and "relative-wage" norms that relate wage offers to workers' own current wage and to the wages of other groups of workers, and, to avoid shirking, firms pay fair wages. The wage norms...
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