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Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States
Holzer, Harry J. - 2012
To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331396
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Raising job quality and worker skills in the US : creating more effective education and workforce development systems in states
Holzer, Harry J. - 2012
To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009546528
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Seeking Success in Canada and the United States : The Determinants of Labour Market Outcomes Among the Children of Immigrants
Picot, Garnett; Hou, Feng - 2012
This paper reviews recent research on the determinants of the labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in Canada and in the U.S. New research on labour market outcomes in Canada is also presented. In the aggregate, and with no controls, the labour market outcomes of the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172076
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Matching frictions, efficiency wages, and unemployment in the USA and the UK
Malcomson, James M.; Mavroeidis, Sophocles - 2007
This paper combines matching frictions with e¢ ciency wages to deter shirking in a model that is estimated for the USA and the UK to derive the underlying structural parameters. Methods robust to weak instruments are used to show that, for both countries, both matching frictions and efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318955
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Japan's labor market cyclicality and the volatility puzzle
Esteban-Pretel, Julen; Nakajima, Ryo; Tanaka, Ryuichi - 2011
The search and matching model has recently come under criticism for its inability to account for some of the cyclical properties of the U.S. labor market. Shimer (2005) has shown that the basic version of the model is incapable of reproducing the volatility of the market tightness for reasonable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154532
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Bargaining and wage rigidity in a matching model for the US
Malcomson, James M.; Mavroeidis, Sophocles - 2015
The Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) matching model with all wages negotiated each period is shown inconsistent with macroeconomic wage dynamics in the US. This applies even when heterogeneous match productivities, time to build vacancies and credible bargaining are incorporated. Wage rigidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472486
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Growth, Inequality and Absolute Mobility in the United States, 1962-2014
Berman, Yonatan - 2019
This paper combines historical cross-sectional and longitudinal data in the US to study patterns of economic growth within the income distribution. We quantify absolute mobility as the fraction of families with higher income over a period of several years. The rates of absolute mobility over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897993
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Aggregate Worker Reallocation and Occupational Mobility in the United States : 1971-2000
Moscarini, Giuseppe; Vella, Francis - 2003
We investigate the evolution and the sources of aggregate employment reallocation in the United States in the 1971 … different technology. We find that the total reallocation of employment across occupations has been strongly procyclical and … these patterns, while correcting for possible worker selection into employment, we construct a synthetic panel based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105763
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Macroeconomic Effects of UI Extensions at Short and Long Durations
Acosta, Miguel; Müller, Andreas; Nakamura, Emi; Jón … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and long durations. To do this, we develop a new state level dataset on trigger variables for UI extensions and a "UI benefit calculator" based on detailed legislative and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421209
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Re-employment probabilities over the business cycle
Imbens, Guido W.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2006
average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … being in a long spell of non-employment. However, the damage associated with being in a long spell seems to be reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268048