scholarly journals Coping with Intra-Household Job Separation in South Africa's Labor Market

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe McLaren
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Job Separation

scholarly journals Family job search and wealth: The added worker effect revisited

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1431-1459 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ignacio García-Pérez ◽  
Sílvio Rendon
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Added Worker Effect ◽  
Job Separation ◽  
Economic Downturns ◽  
Household Members ◽  
Job Finding

We propose and estimate a model of family job search and wealth accumulation with data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). This dataset reveals a very asymmetric labor market for household members who share that their job finding is stimulated by their partners' job separation. We uncover a job search‐theoretic basis for this added worker effect, which occurs mainly during economic downturns, but also by increased nonemployment transfers. Thus, our analysis shows that the policy goal of increasing nonemployment transfers to support a worker's job search is partially offset by the spouse's cross effect of decreased nonemployment and wages. The added worker effect is robust to having more children and more education in the household and does not just result as a composition of heterogeneous individuals. We also show that the interdependency between household members is understated if wealth and savings are not considered. Finally, we show that gender equality in the labor market not only improves women's labor market performance, but it also increases men's accepted wages and nonemployment rates.

scholarly journals Unemployment after the Recession: A New Natural Rate?

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Tasci ◽  
Saeed Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Accurate Assessment ◽  
Natural Rate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Natural Rate Of Unemployment ◽  
Current State ◽  
Job Separation ◽  
Job Finding

The past recession has hit the labor market especially hard, and economists are wondering whether some fundamentals of the market have changed because of that blow. Many are suggesting that the natural rate of long-term unemployment— the level of unemployment an economy can’t go below—-has shifted permanently higher. We use a new measure that is based on the rates at which workers are finding and losing jobs and which provides a more accurate assessment of the natural rate. We find that the natural rate of unemployment has indeed shifted higher—but much less so than has been suggested. Surprising trends in both the job-finding and job-separation rates explain much about the current state of the unemployment rate.

Labor Market Attitudes and Retirement

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 368-368
Author(s):  
Lois F. Copperman ◽  
Donna Stuteville
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market
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