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Cyclical earnings, career and employment transitions
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022
This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412799
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Cyclical earnings, career and employment transitions
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022
This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013390926
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Offshoring and labor markets
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452576
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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa
Golub, Stephen S.; Hayat, Faraz - 2014
This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230912
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Recession and deflation?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022
not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448558
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Revisiting the Relationship between Unemployment and Wages
Gallipoli, Giovanni - 2016
NLSY79 we document that the relationship between wages and unemployment rate differs across occupations. The results hold … discrepancies and offer new evidence suggesting that the sensitivity of wages to current unemployment is linked to the prevalence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998829
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The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities. A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236860
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239323
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Labor market flows and equilibrium search unemployment
Garibaldi, Pietro; Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which … labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching … of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405565
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How do labor markets affect crime? : new evidence on an old puzzle
Mustard, David B. - 2010
property crime. -- Crime ; labor markets ; unemployment ; wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948924