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Recruiting intensity : recruiting intensity is critical for understanding fluctuations in the labor market
Faberman, R. Jason - 2020
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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The labor market in Norway, 2000–2018 : negative consequences of falling oil prices were offset by real wage flexibility, reduced immigration, and labor reallocation
Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2020
Norway has a high labor force participation rate and a very low unemployment rate. Part of the reason for this …
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The labor market in Switzerland, 2000-2018 : the Swiss labor market has proven resilient to several recent shocks, with unemployment remaining stable and real wages steadily increa...
Lalive, Rafael; Lehmann, Tobias - 2020
Switzerland is a small country with rich cultural and geographic diversity. The Swiss unemployment rate is low, at … as a narrowing but persistent gender pay gap. Additionally, regional differences in unemployment are significant. …
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Unemployment and the role of supranational policies : EU supranational policies should be more active at promoting institutional reforms that reduce unemployment
Jimeno, Juan F. - 2017
Unemployment in Europe is excessively high on average, and is divergent across countries and population groups within … policies is needed to fight unemployment more effectively. …
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Unemployment and happiness : successful policies for helping the unemployed need to confront the adverse effects of unemployment on feelings of life satisfaction
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2014
Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors …, for helping the unemployed back into work, and for more evenly distributing the burden of unemployment resulting from …
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The labor market in Canada : 2000-2021 : Covid-19 ended 20 years of stability and good labor market performance, aided in part by a strong resource boom
Riddell, William Craig - 2022
unemployment and non-participation. Despite the severity of the Covid-19 shock, by December 2021 most key measures of labor market …
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The labor market in the US : 2000-2020 : Covid-19 ended the longest US economic expansion, pushing unemployment to its highest level with a slow and incomplete recovery
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
remarkable drop in the labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment after …
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Labor market policies, unemployment, and identity : policies to help the unemployed can affect feelings of identity and well-being, so measures need to be evaluated carefully
Schöb, Ronnie - 2022
Unemployment not only causes material hardship but can also affect an individual's sense of identity (i.e. their …
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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 - 2021
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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The transformations of the French labor market : 2000-2021 : the workforce is now much better educated, but crises have magnified unemployment, underemployment, and low-income work
Askenazy, Philippe - 2022
France has the second largest population of countries in the EU. Since 2000, the French labor market has undergone substantial changes resulting from striking trends, some of which were catalyzed by the Great Recession and the Covid-19 crisis. The most interesting of these changes have been the...
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