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Unemployment paths in a pandemic economy
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Valletta, Robert G. - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to … the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds … the path for measured unemployment, depending on the path of the virus and containment measures and their impact on …
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How did the COVID-19 crisis affect different types of workers in the developing world?
Kugler, Maurice; Viollaz, Mariana; Duque, Daniel; … - 2021
This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set of high-frequency phone surveys conducted by the World Bank and National Statistics Offices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583672
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Canadian labour market dynamics during COVID-19
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2021
stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596068
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No role for the Hartz reforms? : demand and supply factors in the German labor market, 1993-2014
Burda, Michael C.; Seele, Stefanie - 2016
The supply and demand framework of Katz and Murphy (1992) provides new evidence on the source of changes in socially insured full-time and part-time employment in years preceding and following the implementation of the landmark Hartz reforms in Germany. Our findings are consistent with a stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437993
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Employment adjustment and part-time jobs : the U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2016
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455784
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Which factors are behind Germany's labour market upswing?
Hutter, Christian; Klinger, Sabine; Weber, Enzo; … - 2019
The strong and sustained labour market upswing in Germany is widely recognized. In a developing literature, various relevant studies highlight different specific reasons. The underlying study, instead, simultaneously considers a broad set of factors in a unified methodological framework and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105105
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Job search during the COVID-19 crisis
Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213681
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224341
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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment?
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793964
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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799513