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    Title: Explaining Demographic Heterogeneity in Cyclical Unemployment
    Authors: 吳致謙
    Jhih-ChianWu
    Forsythe, Eliza
    Contributors: 經濟系
    Keywords: Unemployment rate;Unemployment Gap;Gross worker flows;Job finding rate;Separation rate;Employment exit rate
    Date: 2021-04
    Issue Date: 2022-04-11 13:21:45 (UTC+8)
    Abstract: We investigate the sources of heterogeneity in the levels and cyclical sensitivity of unemployment rates across demographic groups. We develop a new methodology to decompose cyclical and level differences in unemployment rates between groups into flows between three states (employment, unemployment, and out-of-the-labor-force). We find that increases in unemployment rates during recessions for young, non-white, and less-educated groups of workers are primarily driven by reductions in the job-finding rates, which can explain more than 60% of cyclical fluctuations in the unemployment rate across demographic groups, compared with under 20% driven by separations. However, separations are the most important factor in explaining the persistent gap in unemployment rates between each disadvantaged group and their respective counterpart group, with important differences between groups. For less-educated workers, separation rates explain most of the unemployment gap, with 75% of the separation rate attributable to industry and occupation. Less-educated workers also spend less time searching. For younger workers, we find separation rates explain all of the unemployment gap, while industry and occupation explain only 60% of their elevated separation rates. For non-white workers, hiring explains almost half of the unemployment gap. Non-white workers search more intensely for work than other groups, but spend less time interviewing per search time, suggesting that labor market discrimination contributes to non-white workers’ persistently high unemployment rates.
    Relation: Labour Economics, Vol.69, pp.101955
    Data Type: article
    DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101955
    DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101955
    Appears in Collections:[Department of Economics] Periodical Articles

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