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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?

Earle, John S. - 2014

Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...

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Structural or cyclic? : labor markets in recessions : how should policy respond to higher unemployment?

Lazear, Edward P. - 2014

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

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Recruiting intensity : recruiting intensity is critical for understanding fluctuations in the labor market

Faberman, R. Jason - 2014

When hiring new workers, employers use a wide variety of different recruiting methods in addition to posting a vacancy announcement, such as adjusting education, experience or technical requirements, or offering higher wages. The intensity with which employers make use of these alternative...

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A flexicurity labor market during recession : long-term unemployment did not rise under the flexicurity model during the great recession, despite the large drop in GDP

Andersen, Torben M. - 2015

low unemployment. But how did it fare during the recession, especially in Denmark, which has been highlighted as having a … employment in a recession. Did the high rate of job turnover continue or did long-term unemployment rise? And did the social …

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Effects of entering adulthood during a recession : recent declines in youth employment, net worth, and family formation could permanently affect financial well-being

Dettling, Lisa J. - 2016

Current cohorts of young adults entered adulthood during an international labor and housing market crisis of a severity not experienced since the Great Depression. Concerns have arisen over the impacts on young adults' employment, income, wealth, and living arrangements, and about whether these...

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Employment and wage effects of extending collective bargaining agreements : extending provisions of collective contracts to all workers in an industry or region may lead to employm...

Villanueva, Ernesto - 2015

In many countries, the minimum wages and working conditions set in collective bargaining contracts negotiated by a limited set of employers and unions are subsequently extended to all the employees in an industry. Those extensions ensure common working conditions within the industry, limit wage...

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How are minimum wages set? : countries set minimum wages in different ways, and some countries set different wages for different groups of workers

Dickens, Richard - 2015

The minimum wage has never been as high on the political agenda as it is today, with politicians in Germany, the UK, the US, and other OECD countries calling for substantial increases in the rate. One reason for the rising interest is the growing consensus among economists and policymakers that...

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Unemployment benefits and unemployment : the challenge of unemployment benefits is to protect workers while minimizing undesirable side effects

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2014

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

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The labor market in the US, 2000-2018 : recovery from the Great Recession is complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage problems

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019

labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment from the depths of the …

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The labor market in Russia, 2000-2017 : low unemployment and high employment, but also low, volatile pay and high inequality characterize the Russian labor market

Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E. - 2019

and unemployment showed little sensitivity. Workers have paid the price for this rather stable employment situation in the …

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