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business background (CEO governors), focusing on income growth, unemployment, private investment, and income inequality … private capital stock, and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Income …
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system of unemployment compensation, with shorttime compensation as an alternative to unemployment compensation. This means …) already have short-time compensation as an option under their unemployment insurance system. In these states a governmental …
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Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment. -- unemployment ; duration dependence ; business …
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The U.S. economy is recovering from the financial crisis and ensuing deep recession, but the unemployment rate has … remained stubbornly high. Some have argued that the persistent elevation of unemployment relative to historical norms reflects … rate of unemployment, implying that conventional monetary and fiscal policy should not be used in an attempt to return …
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relatively high risk of prolonged spells of unemployment and premature retirement. The recent increase in the job vacancy rate … with relatively little change in the unemployment rate suggests a decrease in the efficiency of job matching and an … within their normal range and extended unemployment insurance programs have expired. …
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This paper discusses broad trends in labour force participation and part-time employment across different age groups since the Great Recession and uses provincial data to identify changes related to population aging, cyclical effects and other factors. The main population age groups examined are...
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The increase in the share of high- and low-wage employment at the expense of middle-wage employment has been a striking feature of the US economy. We exploit differences across local labor markets in the exposure to Global Value Chains (GVCs), Chinese import competition and automation to study...
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We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to...
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