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an expected long period of unemployment make a job more valuable during recessions. I estimate the elasticity of the …
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This paper studies job search behavior in the midst of a pandemic recession. We use long-running panel data from the Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific module, conducted in June 2020, surveying job search effort of employed as well as unemployed...
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This paper investigates the impact of job displacement on women's first birth rates, and the variation in this effect over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the short and medium term, up to five years after...
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Although New Keynesian models with labor market frictions found an increase in unemployment and a decrease in labor … volatilities of unemployment and labor market tightness are not as high as their empirical counterparts. This calls for the … volatility of unemployment and labor market tightness in response to a positive technology shock compared to the model without on …
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, unemployment rate and market tightness as well as on the overall economic growth. We aim at determining whether a portion of … unemployment can be explained by either the increased public hiring or shrinking of the number of public employees in the last … decade. As the results suggest, in recessionary times the expansion of the public sector managed to keep the unemployment …
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-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies, given shocks of a plausible magnitude. We use data on the cost of vacancy creation …
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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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density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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