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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 earnings changes and whether this arises from changes in the returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426452
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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 earnings changes and whether this arises from changes in the returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470249
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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 earnings changes and whether this arises from changes in the returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013390926
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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 earnings changes and whether this arises from changes in the returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412799
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International Trade and Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
Davidson, Carl; Matusz, Steven J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Davidson and Matusz extend the traditional analysis of international trade to allow for labor markets characterized by workers whose labor-market experiences are punctuated by spells of involuntary unemployment. They demonstrate that such extensions are easily accomplished and that they provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472730
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Comparisons and contrasts of the impact of the crisis on euro area labour markets
Anderton, Robert; Jarvis, Valerie; Szörfi, Béla; … - 2015
The global financial and economic crisis – including two euro area recessions in 2008-2009 and 2011-2013 – has had a heavy impact on euro area labour markets. A notable feature throughout the crisis has been the considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity of labour market adjustments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606311
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No longer qualified? Changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations
Burke, Mary A.; Sasser, Alicia; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2020
Using a novel database of 159 million online job postings, we examine changes in employer skill requirements for education and specific skillsets between 2007 and 2017. We find that upskilling - in terms of increasing demands for bachelor's degrees as well as software skills - was a persistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388959
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The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, W. Craig; … - 2022
The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351943
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No Longer Qualified? Changes in the Supply and Demand for Skills within Occupations
Modestino, Alicia Sasser; Burke, Mary A.; Sadighi, Shahriar - 2023
Although labor market "mismatch" often refers to an imbalances in supply and demand across occupations, mismatch within occupations can arise if skill requirements are changing over time, potentially reducing aggregate matching efficiency within the labor market. To test this, we examine changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469809
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Downskilling: Changes in employer skill requirements over the business cycle
Modestino, Alicia Sasser; Shoag, Daniel; Ballance, Joshua - 2016
Using a novel database of 82.5 million online job postings, we show that employer skill requirements fell as the labor market improved from 2010 to 2014. We find that a 1 percentage point reduction in the local unemployment rate is associated with a roughly 0.27 percentage point reduction in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754806