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's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions … sharp drop in consumer demand, leading to large employment losses in the non-tradable sector. Consistent with firms … local demand shocks in other counties linked through firms' internal networks. These results are not driven by direct demand …
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changes in vacancies would predict. Overall, these job search responses have the potential to amplify the labour demand shock. …
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views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects … industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the scope and direction of search change. Job seekers respond to the shock by … demand would predict. The redirection of job search changes relative hiring costs, and has the potential to amplify labour …
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This paper analyses aggregate labour dynamics during the global financial crisis in Japan and the role of nonstandard …
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the employer's response to greater volatility in aggregate output demand, intensifying price competition pressures in … growth in temporary employment is more a demand-side phenomenon, public policies are discussed which might serve to curb the …
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This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
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The business restrictions introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic greatly affected the labour market. However, quantifying their costs is not trivial as local policies affect neighbouring areas through spillovers. Exploiting the U.S. local variation in restrictions and commuting, we estimate the...
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The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by...
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