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/4 of mismatches is efficient and attenuates polarization and unemployment over the cycle …
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reveals that 1/4 of mismatches is efficient and attenuates polarization and unemployment over the cycle …
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market improved from 2010 to 2014. We find that a 1 percentage point reduction in the local unemployment rate is associated … requirements using a natural experiment based on the fracking boom in the United States as an exogenous shock to the local labor …
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This paper analyses how labour market heterogeneity affects unemployment, productivity and business cycle dynamics that … skilled workers increases the natural rate of unemployment and reduces total factor productivity with long- run effects on the … Beveridge curves. Skill-specific labour market heterogeneity leads to a attening of the Phillips curve as wages and unemployment …
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labor markets. Upon a neutral shock, total unemployment decrease is two-staged: firstly with a reduction in unskilled …-specific unemployment ; human capital investment ; idiosyncratic shock ; skill substitution ; search and matching … investment. Idiosyncratic shock shifts the skilled labor share and changes tightness in both skilled and unskilled markets. Given …
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Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...
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Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. The evidence for this finding is based on the persistent parallel increase in the skill premium and the supply of skilled workers. What are the implications of skill-biased...
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Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863655
shock. Although the model generates a jobless recovery, its implications on unemployment duration are not entirely … consistent with the data. Therefore, this study considers its sectoral theory as promising, but does not claim that such theory …
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Skill erosion during unemployment was of particular concern as unemployment duration increased in the Great Recession … unemployment pool's skill composition, and hence the output produced by other firms' new hires. As a consequence, job creation is …
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