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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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Equilibrium Unemployment : The Role of Discrimination
Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Isojärvi, Anni T.; Li, Haoran - 2022
demographic groups in terms of underlying wedges in fundamentals. Of particular interest is the potential role of discrimination … efficiencies play a secondary role. Our results suggest a minor aggregate impact of taste-based discrimination in hiring and an … important role for statistical discrimination affecting particularly female groups and Black males. Our approach is macro …
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Employment protection and capital-labor ratios
Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2014
Employment protection (EPL) has a well known negative impact on labor flows as well as an ambiguous but often negative effect on employment. In contrast, its impact on capital accumulation and capital-labor ratio is less well understood. The available empirical evidence suggests a non-monotonic...
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Does job security hamper employment prospects?
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Skedinger, Per - 2018
We investigate the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on the propensity to hire workers from unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only. Using administrative data from Sweden, we find that less...
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Does Employment Protection Lead to Unemployment? A Panel Data Analysis of OECD Countries, 1990-2008
Sarkar, Prabirjit - 2012
This paper analyzed the OECD data on employment protection for 23 OECD countries over the time span 1990-2008 on the basis of alternative dynamic panel data models and panel causality tests and examines the validity of the neo-liberal argument that strictness of employment protection hurts labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113170
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Does job security hamper employment prospects?
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Skedinger, Per - 2018
We investigate the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on the propensity to hire workers from unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only. Using administrative data from Sweden, we find that less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943436
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Employment Protection Reform and Unemployment Inequality in a Matching Model (Reforme De La Protection De L'Emploi Et Inegalites Face Au Chomage Dans Un Modele D'Appariement)
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 2007
This paper studies the impact of an unemployment protection legislation reform - a substitution between an experience rated tax and firing costs - on the level and structure of unemployment by skills. In this purpose, we consider a matching model which incorporates endogenous reservation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050738
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The Impact of Employment in Israel on the Palestinian Labor Force
Etkes, Haggay - 2011
This study provides circumstantial evidence for the impact of permits for employment in Israel on the Palestinian labor force in the West Bank during the late Intifada period and its aftermath (2005-2008). The study utilizes a unique dataset that merges data from the Palestinian Labor Force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117372
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Masking Real Unemployment : The Overall and Racial Impact of Survey Non-Response on Measured Labor Market Outcomes
Cai, Yixia; Baker, Dean - 2021
A large and growing percentage of households are missed in the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS). For the survey as a whole, the rate of nonresponse is roughly 13 percent. This is higher for Blacks, with the share for young Black men being about 30 percent. The BLS’s current methodology...
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Fat Chance! Obesity and the Transition from Unemployment to Employment
Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2021
This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job … possible form of labor market discrimination is obese women. Despite making more job applications and engaging more in job …
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