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Who counts as employed? : informal work, employment status, and labor market slack

Bracha, Anat; Burke, Mary A. - 2016 - This version: December, 2016

Several recent studies find that as of 2015, a significant share of working-age adults in the United States participates in nonstandard work arrangements. Such arrangements tend to lack long-term employment contracts and are often referred to as "gig economy" jobs. This paper investigates the...

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Job insecurity, employability, and health : an analysis for Germany across generations

Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014

In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...

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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...

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Labor force participation, job search effort and unemployment insurance in the laboratory

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Ring, Patrick - 2020

How the provision of unemployment benefits affects employment and unemployment is a debated issue. In this paper, we … job market with search effort and labor force participation decisions while varying the maximum length of unemployment … effort when unemployment benefits are extended. However, individuals are more likely to participate in the labor force and to …

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Waiting for recovery: the Canadian labour market in June 2020

Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2020

"recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while …

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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on self-employed workers in Canada

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020

Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...

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Labour force participation and job polarization: evidence from Europe during the Great Recession

Verdugo, Gregory; Allègre, Guillaume - 2020

the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …

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Search behavior, aggregate rationality and the discouraged worker effect

Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje - 2019

- on average - higher for immigrants. We also propose an alternative measure of unemployment which includes the discourage …

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Non-standard employment in Sweden

Skedinger, Per - 2018

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to a substantially weaker labour market attachment for...

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When work disappears : manufacturing decline and the falling marriage-market value of young men

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...

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