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The heterogeneous labor market impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic

Matias, Guido; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2020

We study the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic's impacts on employment. Using CPS data on stocks and … flows, we show that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Although employment losses have been widespread …

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U.S. unemployment insurance through the Covid-19 crisis

Spadafora, Francesco - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 9 (2023), pp. 1-13

The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system in the United States has played a decisive lifeline role in effectively mitigating the economic and social impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which prompted the largest expansion of UI programs in history, one that is unprecedented in scope, scale and cost....

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Googling unemployment during the pandemic : inference and nowcast using search data

Caperna, Giulio; Colagrossi, Marco; Geraci, Andrea; … - Europäische Kommission / Gemeinsame Forschungsstelle - 2020

The economic crisis caused by the covid-19 pandemic is unprecedented in recent history. We contribute to a growing literature investigating the economic consequences of covid-19 by showing how unemployment-related online searches across the EU27 reacted to the introduction of lock-downs. We...

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The potential costs and distributional effect of Covid-19 related unemployment in Ireland

Beirne, Keelan; Doorley, Karina; Regan, Mark; Roantree, … - 2020

This paper simulates the impact that Covid-19 related job losses will have on family incomes and the public finances. It finds that in the central 'medium' unemployment scenario of 600,000 job losses, around 400,000 families will see their disposable income fall by more than 20 per cent in the...

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US and UK labour markets before and during the Covid-19 crash

Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: National Institute economic review : journal of the … 252 (2020) 1, pp. R52-R69

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The labor market impact of Covid-19 on immigrants : job loss from Covid-19 was greater among immigrants than the native-born in most developed countries

Cassidy, Hugh - 2022

. The labor market recovery for both groups in the US was rapid, and by Fall 2020, the employment gaps between immigrant and …

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Is the NAIRU More Useful in Forecasting Inflation than the Natural Rate of Unemployment?

Claar, Victor V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

Recent studies have indicated that the terms 'NAIRU' (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) and 'natural rate of unemployment' are not interchangeable. While NAIRU is an empirical macroeconomic relationship estimated via a Phillips curve, the natural rate is an equilibrium condition...

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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression

Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …

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MORAL COSTS, THE INFORMAL SECTOR AND UNEMPLOYMENT

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2001

While examining the macroeconomic effects of increased government control of the informal sector, this paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. The same good is produced in the formal and in the informal sector. Moral...

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An economists' Manifesto on unemployment in the European Union

MODIGLIANI, F.; FITOUSSI, J.-P.; MORO, B.; SNOWER, D.; … - In: BNL Quarterly Review 51 (1998) 206, pp. 327-361

policy. The expansion of aggregate demand is necessary to increase both investment and employment. However, unless supply …-side measures are also taken, demand expansion can result in more inflation instead of more employment, because of the mismatch …

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