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The heterogeneous labor market impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic

Matias, Guido; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2020

We study the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic's impacts on employment. Using CPS data on stocks and flows, we show that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Although employment losses have been widespread, they have been substantially larger in lower-paying...

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The impact of nurse turnover on quality of care and mortality in nursing homes : eevidence from the Great Recession

Akosa Antwi, Yaa; Bowblis, John R. - 2016

instrumental variable estimation that uses the unemployment rate as an instrument for nursing turnover. We find that ignoring …

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Search and multiple jobholding

Lalé, Etienne - 2019

A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...

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Vers une croissance plus inclusive en Tunisie

De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Larbi, Hédi; Dridi, Raja - 2018

Le niveau de vie moyen des Tunisiens a augmenté de façon continue depuis plusieurs décennies tandis que la pauvreté et les inégalités ont largement diminué grâce à la mise en oeuvre de nombreux programmes sociaux. L’accès aux infrastructures de base telles que l’eau potable ou...

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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...

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Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition : a comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; … - 2006

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …

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The COVID-19 pandemic's evolving impacts on the labor market: who's been hurt and what we should do

Hershbein, Brad; Holzer, Harry J. - 2021

In this paper, we shed light on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market, and how they have evolved over most of the year 2020. Relying primarily on microdata from the CPS and state-level data on virus caseloads, mortality, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of...

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Aggregate demand, idle time, and unemployment

Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - 2014

This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …

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What do we know about contracting out in the United States? : Evidence from household and establishment surveys

Dey, Matthew S.; Houseman, Susan N.; Polivka, Anne E. - 2009

A variety of evidence points to significant growth in domestic contracting out over the last two decades, yet the phenomenon is not well documented. In this paper, we pull together data from various sources to shed light on the extent of and trends in domestic outsourcing, the occupations in...

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Temporary help employment in recession and recovery

Houseman, Susan N.; Heinrich, Carolyn J. - 2015

The temporary help industry, although small, plays a significant role in the macro economy, reflecting employers' growing reliance on temporary help agencies to provide flexibility in meeting staffing needs. Drawing on detailed temporary-help order data between 2007 and 2011 from a large,...

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