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document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …
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We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …
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Paper [I] adds to the theoretical literature on the incentives of Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs). Using a principal-agent model with hidden action to model two main types of contracts between a TWA and a Client Firm (CF), the TWA is shown to potentially act against the best interest of the CF...
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In this paper, the authors incorporate a positive theory of unemployment insurance into a dynamic overlapping … unemployment insurance levels in a politico-conomic equilibrium. …
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unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which succeeds at generating … countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …
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that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … States and Europe. The theoretical model brings together all three and emphasizes technological growth. Computations show …
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growth affect the unemployment probability of individuals with varied skills in the United States. The paper goes beyond … between macroeconomic shocks and unemployment. Workers specialized in communication skills exhibit lower unemployment rates …, reduced unemployment volatility, and less sensitivity to macroeconomic fluctuations. …
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Professor Christopher Pissarides was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen ‘for their analysis of markets with search frictions’. Though Pissarides is best known for his work in this area, it is only part of a very extensive research agenda...
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period when unemployment increased in Germany but fell in Britain and the US. I show that in this period, Germany experienced …
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