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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK

Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022

This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...

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Employment subsidies and job insertion of higher education graduates in the labor market

Khayati, Anis; Hani, Umme; Alam, Shabbir; Sha, Nadia; … - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 11, pp. 1-13

This paper uses data from the 24 governorates in Tunisia over the period 2012-2020 to study the relationship between job insertion of higher education graduates into the formal labor market and a number of independent variables, namely active labor supply, labor demand, an active labor market...

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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René - 2006

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

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COVID-19 and Labour Law : Argentina. Update 2 July 2020

Chiuffo, Facundo Martin - 2020

Argentina has had a profound regulatory activity to counteract the coronavirus pandemic so far and its consequences, which appear to worsen as time goes by. Based on the experience of other countries, a strict lockdown was put into place at an early stage, which has been opening up slowly but...

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Structural or cyclic? : labor markets in recessions : how should policy respond to higher unemployment?

Lazear, Edward P. - 2014

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

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COVID-19 and employment in South Korea: trends and comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis

Nam, Minhyuk; Lee, Soohyung - 2021

decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …

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Unemployment, Health Insurance, and the COVID-19 Recession

Gangopadhyaya, Anuj - 2020

that unemployment rates may reach unprecedented heights during the COVID-19 crisis, steep increases in Medicaid coverage …

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Did the Australian JobKeeper program save jobs by subsidizing temporary layoffs?

Borland, Jeff; Hunt, Jennifer - 2021

We analyze the JobKeeper lump-sum wage subsidy introduced by the Australian government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, paying particular attention to the role of temporary layoffs in saving jobs. Although temporary layoffs were widely used, we find that recalls of workers on temporary...

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Germany's labour market in Coronavirus distress : new challenges to safeguarding employment

Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - 2021

We analyse measures of internal flexibility taken to safeguard employment during the Coronavirus Crisis in comparison to the Great Recession. Cyclical working-time reductions are again a major factor in safeguarding employment. Whereas during the Great Recession all working-time instruments...

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Germany and the United States in coronavirus distress : internal versus external labour market flexibility

Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22

mainly driven via STW. US unemployment rose at an unprecedented rate, but unlike in previous recessions, it was mostly driven …

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