Arbeitspapier

Employment Adjustment and Part-time Jobs: The U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession

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 part-time employment is predominantly explained by cyclical changes in transitions between full-time and part-time employment, which occur overwhelmingly at the same employer and entail large changes in individuals' working hours. We discuss implications for a large class of macroeconomic models that map individual decisions along the extensive/intensive margins onto aggregate labor market outcomes.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9847

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Thema
employment
hours
part-time work
Great Recession

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel
Lalé, Etienne
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel
  • Lalé, Etienne
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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