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Earnings and employment dynamics : capturing cyclicality using mixed frequency data
Holmberg, Johan - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185261
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Informal employment and business cycles in emerging economies : the case of Mexico
Fernández, Andrés; Meza, Felipe - 2014
This paper documents how informal employment in Mexico is countercyclical, lags the cycle and is negatively correlated to formal employment. This contributes to explaining why total employment in Mexico displays low cyclicality and variability over the business cycle when compared to Canada, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286686
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Slow to hire, quick to fire : employment dynamics with asymmetric responses to news
Ilut, Cosmin; Kehrig, Matthias; Schneider, Martin - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301229
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Grown-up business cycles
Pugsley, Benjamin; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455248
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Individual and aggregate labor supply in a heterogeneous agent economy with intensive and extensive margins
Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-bin; Kwon, Kyooho; Rogerson, … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404615
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Man-cessions, fiscal policy, and the gender composition of employment
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Winkler, Roland - 2015
In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502790
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Gender and the business cycle : a stocks and flows analysis of US and UK labour market states
Razzu, Giovanni; Singleton, Carl - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506103
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Downward real wage rigidity and equal treatment wage contracts : evidence from Germany ; conference paper
Snell, Andy; Stüber, Heiko - 2014
Theoretical models of downward real wage rigidity generate asymmetric wage cyclicality with real wages being rigid in … establish that such asymmetries are very salient in Germany. We find that the semi elasticity of real wages with respect to … data. Equal treatment is a central driver of downwardly rigid wages in many contracting models (e.g., Hall, 2005; Gertler …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490623
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Understanding informality
Elgin, Ceyhun; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Yu, Shu - 2021
This paper introduces a comprehensive database of informal economic activity. The database focuses on measures that have strong cross-country and over time coverage: it includes both model-based and survey-based measures of informality and covers more than 160 economies for the period 1990-2018....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625108
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Cross-sectional and aggregate labor supply
Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-bin; Kwon, Kyooho; Rogerson, … - 2019
zero cross-sectional correlation between hours and wages found in the data. We ask whether matching this moment matters for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107909