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important because a worker who is confronted with a layoff which is a rare event will require very different post-displacement …
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We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the fraction of the non-employed who are unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956011
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the fraction of the non-employed who are unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956333
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the fraction of the non-employed who are unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064016
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the fraction of the non-employed who are unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647679
Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their...
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; job search ; networks …
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Using monthly data from the Canadian Labor Force Survey, the author investigates changes in the complete lengths of new job spells from 1981 through 1994. While the average complete length of new jobs did not increase or decrease over the period, changes in the distribution of complete job...
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This study examines how the risk of job loss and the short-term earnings losses of laid-off workers evolved between the late 1970s and the mid-2000s. In aggregate, Canadian workers were less likely to be permanently laid-off in 2005-2007 than in 1978-1980, two comparable points in the business...
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We revisit the measurement of the sources and consequences of job displacement using Canadian job separation records …. To circumvent administrative data limitations, conventional approaches address selection by identifying displacement … quarter of mass-layoff separations are indeed layoffs. Isolating mass-layoff separations that reflect involuntary displacement …
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