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Against all odds : job search during the Great Recession
Leyva, Gustavo - 2018
The unemployed in the United States appear to allocate time to job search activities regardless of the stance of the economy. Drawing on the American Time Use Survey between 2003 and 2014, I document that the unemployed increase their search intensity only slightly if at all during recessions....
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Employment adjustment and part-time jobs : the U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2016
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...
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Labor Force Participation and Monetary Policy in the Wake of the Great Recession
Erceg, Christopher J. - 2014
In this paper, we provide compelling evidence that cyclical factors account for the bulk of thepost-2007 decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate. We then proceed to formulate astylized New Keynesian model in which labor force participation is essentially acyclical during“normal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061162
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Gender and Employment in the COVID-19 Recession : Evidence on “She-Cessions”
Bluedorn, John C.; Caselli, Francesca; Hansen, Niels-Jakob - 2022
to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s … related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …
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A closer look at nonparticipants during and after the Great Recession
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2012
This paper uses matched individual-level data from the Current Population Survey to determine that around the 2008 recession, there was a significant upward shift in trend of the share of labor force leavers giving "Schooling" and "Other" as the reason for absence from the labor market. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581978
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A Closer Look at Nonparticipants During and After the Great Recession
Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2014
This paper uses matched individual-level data from the Current Population Survey to determine that around the 2008 recession, there was a significant upward shift in trend of the share of labor force leavers giving "Schooling" and "Other" as the reason for absence from the labor market. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065702
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Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock : evidence from real time surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, … - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
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The Current Economic and Financial Crisis : A Gender Perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2015
Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and … place outside the strict boundaries of the market. The paper also makes this point: examined through the prism of gender … and international levels end up aggravating inequities, gender equality processes face many more barriers, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039525
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The Recovery from the Great Recession : A Long, Evolving Expansion
Shambaugh, Jay; Strain, Michael R. - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...
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The Distributional Impact of Recessions : The Global Financial Crisis and the Pandemic Recession
Shibata, Ippei - 2020
Using the U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the Pandemic Crisis and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where individuals interact to consume goods), 'teleworkable'...
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