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employment, low youth and female unemployment, flexibility, and a low share of the "working poor", all of which can beneficially … self-employment, and an excess of labor cost growth over productivity growth, all of which can threaten further economic …
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paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …
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This paper uses the Austrian Social Security Register (ASSD) to explore what information firms infer from the three common types of displacement: individual layoffs, individuals displaced due to a closure and individuals displaced due to a mass layoff. I bring together two strands of the...
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We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted for by the unprecedented extensions of...
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This paper evaluates the strength of information flow from employed past coworkers on the re-employment duration of …-entry tenure. We find that a 10 percentage point increase in the network employment rate leads to a 3.2 percent increase in the …
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This paper examines the incidence of involuntary job loss and its impact on the employment and earnings of affected … workers, using data from the Survey of Families, Incomes and Employment (SoFIE) for the 2002-09 period. It focusses on … employees who had been working in their job for at least one year before the job loss. The impact of displacement on employment …
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properties of employment and unemployment equilibrium. Second, it applies the model to the study of employment fluctuations and … unemployed workers from inactivity to production (the ‘job creation’ flow) and one for the flow of workers from employment to … flows are equal. The model is shown to explain well the employment fluctuations observed in the US economy, within the …
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-displacement wage. Using rich and accurate data on workers’ employment patterns before and after displacement, we compare the earnings … and employment outcomes of displaced workers who entered transfer companies with those that did not. Workers can choose … and IV estimates indicate that the use of a transfer company has a positive and significant effect on employment rates …
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's earnings, wage, and employment loss after a mass layoff in comparison to a matched, nondisplaced, control worker. We find that … migrants face substantially higher earnings losses than natives due to both higher wage and employment losses. Differences in … but not the employment gap after displacement. Laid-off migrants are both less likely to become reemployed and work fewer …
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dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …
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