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order to best nowcast US initial unemployment claims in spring of 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that …
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The study investigates the importance of poor local labor market conditions in explaining the labor market behavior of married women in urban India. Using nationally representative employment data, we empirically test for the existence of a discouraged worker effect arising from either of two...
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unemployment. Micro-founded in a setting where search friction regulates labor market transitions, we derive a migration gravity … equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model ….g. home bias). As a model of unemployment, a migration gravity approach uncovers hitherto under-appreciated interregional …
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Official statistics indicated a break in Okun's law in all the Spanish regions due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, herein, evidence of the validity of the law is shown. The temporary layoff procedures (ERTE) allowed many workers to maintain their jobs. From the productive point of view, the...
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Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper …
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Past research finds evidence that workers' labour market outcomes are enhanced if they live in areas with greater job opportunities and employment density. Using two alternative measures of the employment density and job opportunities faced by workers in the local labour market in which they...
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The labour market status of many non-working persons is at the boundary between unemployment and inactivity. Like the … definition of unemployment. In this paper we examine by non-parametric tests how the transition probabilities of these out …
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There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile … municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996. This model allows us to …
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This paper aims to shed light in the dynamics of Spanish regional unemployment rates and determine the driving forces … of their disparities. The Spanish economy has one of the highest unemployment rates in the EU and is characterised by … severe regional disparities. We apply the chain reaction theory of unemployment according to which the evolution of …
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This paper aims to shed light in the dynamics of Spanish regional unemployment rates and determine the driving forces … of their disparities. The Spanish economy has one of the highest unemployment rates in the EU and is characterised by … severe regional disparities. We apply the chain reaction theory of unemployment according to which the evolution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106324