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Structural Change Revisited : The Rise of Manufacturing Jobs in the Service Sector

Boddin, Dominik; Kroeger, Thilo - 2022

This paper reconsiders the labor market consequences of structural change over the past 43 years. Taking two different ways of defining manufacturing and service employment as point of departure - according to the industry classification of firms or establishments and according to the occupation...

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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment Volatility : Evidence from OECD Countries

Faccini, Renato - 2012

unemployment rate exhibits substantial cross-country and time variation. We then investigate empirically whether labour market … institutions can account for this observed heterogeneity and find that the impact of various institutions on cyclical unemployment … the volatility of unemployment by reducing match surplus is not supported by the data. In fact, unemployment benefits …

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Labor Market Dysfunction During the Great Recession

Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2013

poor labor market to a better labor market. We find that modifications raise the unemployment rate by about 0.5 percentage … individuals losing skills as unemployment duration is longer …

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Precarious Employment in British Columbia : Effects, Economic Indicators, and Policy Responses

Sagmoen, Erik - 2020

This report provides an introduction to the concept of precarious employment and summarizes empirical findings in the Canadian literature. Precarious workers have poor physical and mental health, delay forming relationships and starting families, are often underemployed and isolated from their...

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Policies for Building a Functioning Labour Market in Bulgaria

Terziev, Venelin - 2019

accompanied by a radical change in the professional careers of employed people, a rise in unemployment and poverty and …

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Policies for Building a Functioning Labour Market in Bulgaria

Terziev, Venelin - 2019

accompanied by a radical change in the professional careers of employed people, a rise in unemployment and poverty and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105584

Trends in the Labor Market

Berrebi, Claude; Shraberman, Kyrill; Yarin, Shirley - 2020

This work looks at two highly influential trends in Israel’s current and future labor market. One has to do with changing occupational distribution; the other relates to changes in returns to education. The study finds that between 2013 and 2015 the number of work hours rose in those...

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Unemployment dynamics in Uruguay : an analysis using chain reaction theory

Leites, Martín; Porras, Sylvina - In: CEPAL review (2016) 120, pp. 95-117

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Subsidizing domestic services as a tool to fight unemployment: effectiveness and hidden costs

Leduc, Elisabeth; Tojerow, Ilan - 2020

-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this paper, we use Belgian administrative data to … exact matching. Our findings indicate that such subsidies can be effective in reducing unemployment and inactivity, but only …

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The determinants of reservation wages in Germany : does a motivation gap exist?

Christensen, Björn - 2001

characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …

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