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Title: Essays on the Labor Market

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2020

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Abstract: This dissertation consists of two essays on labor markets. The first essay explains differences in unemployment duration among displaced workers by differences in their skills, using the unemployed worker's previous occupation and years of education to capture skill level. I use the cumulative incidences approach from the statistics literature, a better alternative to the standard survival analysis methods in the case of competing risks. I find that the higher the displaced worker is on the skill ladder, based on their previous occupation, the faster their exit rate to a full-time job by 55%. An extra year of education will increase the exit rate to a full-time job by 7%. The impact of education, however, on exiting unemployment is less pronounced the higher the displaced worker's previous occupation is on the skill-ladder. The second essay investigates changes in the plucking behavior of employment growth, as well as changes in its relationship with the output cycle in the G7 countries. Using both revised and real-time data, we consider several popular measures of the output cycle. We find evidence in favor of substantial disparities across countries, both in the responses of employment to employment gaps and in the responses of employment to the output cycle. Furthermore, for most countries, we see signicant evidence in favor of structural changes in the response coefficients, suggesting much slower recoveries in labor markets, consistent with the jobless recoveries hypothesis.

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Authors: Elroukh, Ahmed W.

Institution: Lehigh University

Department: Economics

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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