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Unemployment, underemployment, and employment opportunities : results from a correspondence audit
Nunley, John M.; Pugh, Adam; Romero, Nicholas; Seals, Alan - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406683
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Crowding out in the labour market : do employers lend a hand?
Verhaest, Dieter; Bogaert, Elene; Dereymaeker, Jeroen; … - 2016
We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in which duos of fictitious applications by bachelor and master graduates are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449965
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Short-time work and unemployment in and after the Great Recession
Kopp, Daniel; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2017 - This version: June 2019
Can governmental policies mitigate the effects of recessions on unemployment? We study whether the Swiss short …-time work (STW) program reduced unemployment in the 2009-2015 period using quarterly establishment-level panel data linking … several administrative data sources. We compare changes in permanent layoffs into unemployment, hiring from unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061314
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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa
Golub, Stephen S.; Hayat, Faraz - 2014
labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230912
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Structural unemployment, underemployment, and secular stagnation
Hashimoto, Ken'ichi; Ono, Yoshiyasu; Schlegl, Matthias - 2020
economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … explain movements of unemployment and underemployment in opposite directions. Finally, we show that uctuations in the total … employment gap under stagnation are primarily driven by uctuations in underemployment instead of structural unemployment. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012216141
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Structural unemployment, underemployment, and secular stagnation
Hashimoto, Ken'ichi; Ono, Yoshiyasu; Schlegl, Matthias - 2020
economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … explain movements of unemployment and underemployment in opposite directions. Finally, we show that fluctuations in the total … employment gap under stagnation are primarily driven by fluctuations in underemployment instead of structural unemployment. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219698
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The great reversal in the demand for skill and cognitive tasks
Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin M. - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733362
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The great reversal in the demand for skill and cognitive tasks
Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A.; Sand, Ben - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358053
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A balancing act at times of austerity : matching the supply and demand for skills in the Greek labour market
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2014
This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic crisis of 2008, is crucial as it is currently faced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238208
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How useful is the concept of skills mismatch?
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2017
The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill obsolescence. In this paper we provide a clear overview of each concept and discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664385