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Paying to avoid recession : using reenlistment to estimate the cost of unemployment

Borgschulte, Mark; Martorell, Paco - 2016

This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment … home-state unemployment rate. Comparing these estimates to realized losses in post-service civilian earnings resulting from … exiting the military during times of high unemployment suggests that mitigating factors (e.g., leisure, private and public …

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Racial differences in labor market transitions and the Great Recession

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2016

Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics, African-Americans and whites. Transition probabilities are contrasted prior to the Great Recession and afterwards. Estimates indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as...

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Unemployment and mortality : evidence from the Great Recession

Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen, Huong - 2016

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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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