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commentators have argued that the subsequent rise in unemployment exceeded previous estimates of the elasticity of the unemployment …-term estimate of Okun’s coefficient implying that the deviation in unemployment during the crisis resulted from a larger output gap … period utilized. Focusing more on short-term fluctuations, changes in unemployment are decomposed to identify the association …
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US economy and analyzes the net structural and cyclical employment trends in the US economy during the last 10 trough … sectors, including parts of the financial services sector, are experiencing structural employment declines. Structural … employment gains in the US labor market are increasingly concentrated in the healthcare, education, food, and professional and …
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, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of employment outcomes - including permanent layoffs, which generate large … examine how these employment patterns vary across different states, according to the timing and severity of virus caseloads … economic activity reduce employment rates concurrently but do not seem to have lingering effects once relaxed. In contrast …
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of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions …
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Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...
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We analyse measures of internal flexibility taken to safeguard employment during the Coronavirus Crisis in comparison … to the Great Recession. Cyclical working-time reductions are again a major factor in safeguarding employment. Whereas … more than twice as large as that in May 2009. Furthermore, marginal employment is affected strongly but not protected by …
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To understand how the welfare state adjusts to economic shocks it is important to explain both the genesis of popular preferences and the institutional incentives of governments to respond to these preferences. This paper attempts to do both, using a general theoretical framework and detailed...
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1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …
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-- Considerations on the youth unemployment problem in Turkey -- Technology adoption for addressing precarious youth employment issue … unemployment and the development of new policies to assist in regulating the global labor market. Highlighting innovative … approaches and relevant perspectives, such as outsourcing, trade openness, and employment protection." …
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