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increase in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
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market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …
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how this framework can generate changes in unemployment and labor participation that match those uncovered by the ….S. states, including many that experience unemployment during the transition. However, nominal rigidities reduce the overall U …
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The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...
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We study the labour market impact of a major shock of return migration, following the end of the Portuguese Colonial War in 1974. The retornados influx is unique because of its size (half a million people in a country of nine million), and similarity with the native population (almost 80% of the...
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such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …
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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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to avoid elevated unemployment rates during the transition …
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. Using a Bayesian proxy-VAR estimated with U.S. data, we show how distribution shocks trigger output and unemployment …
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We document substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of German establishments’ real wage cyclicality over the business cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical wages. We estimate a negative connection between...
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