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Job search during the covid-19 crisis
Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2021
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419555
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Sickness absence and search unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - 2004
The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449837
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Labor markets during the covid-19 crisis : a preliminary view
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206097
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The right man for the job
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2001
rates are consistent with weakly increasing returns in matching. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399676
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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2020
unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219107
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - First version: April 2015. This version: February 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444082
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Cyclical earnings, career and employment transitions
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022
This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...
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Capital market institutions and venture capital : do they affect unemployment and labour demand?
Fehn, Rainer; Fuchs, Thomas - 2003
-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture … capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment. As we expected, venture capital investment has different influences … on sectoral-, educational- and occupational-specific unemployment. We suggest, on the basis of the regression results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506487
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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation
Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019
unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026458
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Labour market reforms and outcomes in Estonia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - 2012
The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered … would facilitate the structural transformation and reduce the long-term unemployment rate. Linking increases in unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009508093