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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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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 the US, 2000-2016 : recovery from the Great Recession is essentially complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage issues

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2017

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

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The relationship between recessions and health : economic recessions seem to reduce overall mortality rates, but increase suicides and mental health problems

Drydakis, Nick - 2016

Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven that they reduce mortality rates. A general health...

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Tuning unemployment insurance to the business cycle : unemploymenr insurance generosity should be greater when unemployment is high and vice versa

Andersen, Torben M. - 2014

High unemployment and its social and economic consequences have lent urgency to the question of how to improve … unemployment insurance in bad times without jeopardizing incentives to work or public finances in the medium term. A possible … solution is a rule-based system that improves the generosity of unemployment insurance (replacement rate, benefit duration …

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The labor market in Italy, 2000-2016 : Italy has seen moderate recovery since the double-dip recession, but problems persist among the youth and in southern regions

Marino, Francesca; Nunziata, Luca - 2017

moderate recovery beginning in 2014. Despite some improvement, unemployment remains higher than pre-crisis levels, especially …

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