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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labor market differences
De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - In: Southern economic journal 88 (2021) 2, pp. 680-704
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Labor Market Issues in the Caribbean: Scope to Mobilize Employment Growth
Kandil, Magda E.; Lindow, Genevieve; Mansilla, Mario; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth to major sources of labor market determinants, in the...
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The self-employment option in rigid labor markets : an empirical investigation
Garcia-Cabo, Joaquin; Madera, Rocio - 2019
workers’ outside options. We document the negative selection into self-employment when workers enter from unemployment, and … contract out of unemployment. These facts call for a revision of active labor market policies in place …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126166
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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market differences in the U.S.
De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019
in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157899
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Job duration and match characteristics over the business cycle
Baydur, Ismail; Mukoyama, Toshihiko - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161394
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The ins and outs of involuntary part-time employment
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2018
We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913254
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Does high home-ownership impair the labor market?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2013
-ownership rate in a U.S. state are a precursor to eventual sharp rises in unemployment in that state. The elasticity exceeds unity: a … unemployment rate. What mechanisms might explain this? We provide evidence that rises in home-ownership are associated with three …
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Portugal; Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
Portugal’s economy is in deep recession, and the crisis has opened up a large output gap, with severe consequences for employment and government revenue. While the focus is on the medium- and long-term, this analysis also offers insights on how deep the output gap is. It also highlights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242590
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Optimal labor-market policy in recessions
Jung, Philip; Kuester, Keith - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2011
-market policy instruments, namely, a vacancy subsidy, a layoff tax and unemployment benefits. The authors derive analytical … that hiring subsidies, layoff taxes and the replacement rate of unemployment insurance should all rise in recessions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366950
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Job creation in the region
Dudley, William C. - In: Speech (2011) Aug 12
Remarks by President Dudley at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
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