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COVID-19 is a persistent reallocation shock
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - 2021
Drawing on data from the firm-level Survey of Business Uncertainty, we present three pieces of evidence that COVID-19 is a persistent reallocation shock. First, rates of excess job and sales reallocation over 24-month periods have risen sharply since the pandemic struck, especially for sales. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416304
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Long social distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426066
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COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - 2021
Drawing on data from the firm-level Survey of Business Uncertainty, we present three pieces of evidence that COVID-19 is a persistent reallocation shock. First, rates of excess job and sales reallocation over 24-month periods have risen sharply since the pandemic struck, especially for sales. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232561
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COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - 2021
Drawing on data from the firm-level Survey of Business Uncertainty, we present three pieces of evidence that COVID-19 is a persistent reallocation shock. First, rates of excess job and sales reallocation over 24-month periods have risen sharply since the pandemic struck, especially for sales. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242016
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Long social distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441976
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Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 1998
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299970
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Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2000
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318596
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Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment
Davis, Steven J.; Faberman, Jason; Haltiwanger, John; … - 2015
Unemployment inflows fell from 4 percent of employment per month in the early 1980s to 2 percent or less by the mid … parameter in search and matching models of unemployment. According to these models, a lower intensity of idiosyncratic shocks … produces less job destruction, fewer workers flowing through the unemployment pool and less frictional unemployment. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205905
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Sticky wages on the layoff margin
Davis, Steven J.; Krolikowski, Pawel - 2023
We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325070
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Empirical evaluation of broader job search requirements for unemployed workers
Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022
This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448678