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Change is an enduring feature of the economy and the labour market, even in normal times. The importance of adjusting to change, and of policies that promote adjustment, has been a recurring theme throughout David Dodge’s distinguished career. This paper deals with “displaced...
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-tenure displaced workers experience earnings losses due to reduced income during unemployment following displacement. However, unlike … indicates that job losers with 5 or more years of job tenure constitute about 5% of unemployment and 15-20% of permanent job …
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stylized fact about the cyclicality of skill requirements (tasks) for newly formed jobs. Relating local unemployment rates in …
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partially due to relative changes in the type of jobs available at these times. Unemployment Insurance (UI) helps individuals … transition through difficult economic situations such as periods of unemployment, and underemployment. While UI provides … insurance to households by helping them “smooth consumption†during a period of unemployment, studies have found evidence of …
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approach allows us to jointly estimate the effects of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage …. This result is driven by both two sources: (i) unemployment effects on the formal sector, (ii) movements of workers from …
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-being, implementation of minimum wage laws can also be associated with increased unemployment and the movement of workers into the informal … empirically assess the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of …
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In this paper I estimate the magnitude of earnings losses faced by workers who are displaced when over the age of 50. This is potentially complicated by the self-selection of older individuals out of the labour force and into activities such as retirement, preventing observation of their...
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re-employment following unemployment. Given that the positive correlation between education and adaptability is likely to …
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and raised overall matching efficiency. To address this issue, we analyze the expansion of the website "Craigslist", which … rental vacancy rate, and had no effect on the unemployment rate. …
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This paper studies the incidence and duration of unemployment in Canada at an aggregate and a number of disaggregated … most of the changes in steady state unemployment rates during the study period can be attributed to changes in incidence …
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