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of other employment policies. …
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asymmetry implies that an adverse, skill-neutral shock to aggregate employment may cause an increase in wage inequality, both … between and within skill categories, as well as an increase in unemployment, especially among low-skill workers. Movements in … productivity, unemployment and inequality may thus be linked to induced overeducation and credentialism. …
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care for a spouse has not been studied widely. We examine the effects of California's law on the employment of workers who … the paid leave program increased the employment of 45-64 year old women with a disabled spouse in California by around 0 …, with a 2.9 percentage point rise in private sector employment. The employment of men with a disabled spouse in California …
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This article provides an overview of the economic literature on short-time work. It presents the main characteristics of short-time work since its emergence in Germany in the 1930s. It analyzes its effectiveness as a job preservation mechanism, drawing on theoretical models and empirical...
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Great Recession. While GDP dropped by more than five per cent in 2009, employment remained constant and started to increase … productivity and working time cushioned their impact on employment. We find that reductions in hourly productivity played a … Recession, temporary working time reductions were amply used to stabilise employment. Using a time series model, we show that …
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demand shocks lower wages, employment and increase unemployment under equilibrium conditions. Furthermore, the results show … effects, transitions from work to unemployment or inactivity (or vice versa) are considered exogenously in this literature … market although the return to pre-shock employment level depends on a number of factors related to the subsidy (such as …
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