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In times of economic crisis, many employers in liberal labor markets reduce their employees' working hours, which leads to an increase in the incidence of involuntary part-time work. We analyze the effectiveness of working time regulation in preventing such an increase during downswings. For...
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fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks …
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We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...
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The unemployed in the United States appear to allocate time to job search activities regardless of the stance of the economy. Drawing on the American Time Use Survey between 2003 and 2014, I document that the unemployed increase their search intensity only slightly if at all during recessions....
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This paper identifies and analyses a new effect related to the cyclical behavior of labor supply: the Entitled-Worker Effect (EWE). This effect is different from the well-known Added-Worker Effect (AWE) and Discouraged-Worker Effect (DWE). The EWE is a consequence of one of the most important...
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This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and ….5 percentage points. At the same time, closing both the gender and education gaps would raise the EU employment rate from 76% to 89 … high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps …
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the household head are critical. The indirect effects of education, gender, residence, and age are clearly notable … to poverty reduction. The main objective of the current study is to examine the extent to which gender, education … and 30 years. The main findings based on a binary logistic regression approach, reveal that education, gender, residence …
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We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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year after the first child is born, mothers' annual earnings drop by 11% while men's remain unchanged. The gender gap is …
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changes in unemployment and shifts in attitudes toward gender roles in the labor market. The results are not immediately …-level probability models of agreement with traditional gender roles over the period 1995 to 2021, including country and year fixed … effects. We find that an increase in unemployment is associated to more conservative views about gender roles in the labor …
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