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Job Seekers' Perceptions and Employment Prospects : Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and Bias

Mueller, Andreas I. - 2018

This paper analyses job seekers' perceptions and their relationship to unemployment outcomes to study heterogeneity and duration-dependence in both perceived and actual job finding. Using longitudinal data from two comprehensive surveys, we document (1) that reported beliefs have strong...

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Demography, Unemployment, Automation, and Digitalization : Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 2010–2030

Bloom, David E. - 2018

Globally, an estimated 734 million jobs will be required between 2010 and 2030 to accommodate recent and ongoing demographic shifts, account for plausible changes in labour force participation rates, and achieve target unemployment rates of at or below 4 percent for adults and at or below 8...

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The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment

Autor, David H. - 2001

less skilled and their employment responses to adverse employment shocks. Following program liberalization in 1984, DI …

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Trade, Jobs, and Wages

Krugman, Paul - 1993

There is a broad consensus among US opinion leaders that our economic problem is largely one of failures of international competition -- that trade deficits have eroded our manufacturing base, that inability to sell on world markets has been a major drag on economic growth, and that imports from...

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The Ins and Outs of Unemployment : The Ins Win

Darby, Michael R. - 1986

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The Added-Worker Effect : A Reappraisal

Lundberg, Shelly J. - 1981

states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … employment of married women …

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Labor Force Transitions and Unemployment

Clark, Kim B. - 1978

are four main conclusions. First, labor force transitions are the principal determinant of fluctuations in employment and …. Likewise, most spells of employment end with labor force withdrawal rather than unemployment. Second, traditional estimates of …

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Why Do Sectoral Employment Programs Work? Lessons from WorkAdvance

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2020

-wage jobs in higher-earning industries and occupations not just by raising employment. Training in transferable and certifiable … skills (likely under-provided from poaching concerns) and reductions of employment barriers to high-wage sectors for non …

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Whom Do Employers Want? The Role of Recent Employment and Unemployment Status and Age

Farber, Henry S. - 2018

We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … findings solidify an emerging consensus on the role of age and employment on callback. First, among applicants across a broad …

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Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio : A Review of the Evidence

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2018

This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known about the various factors that … have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall employment-to-population ratio between 1999 and 2016. Population … aging has had a notable effect on the overall employment rate over this period, but within-age-group declines in employment …

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