Labor force participation and the discouraged worker effect
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Labor market programs , the discouraged - worker effect , and labor force participation ∗
This paper estimates the macroeconomic effect of labor market programs on labor force participation. Labor market programs could counteract business-cycle variation in the participation rate that is due to the discouraged-worker effect, and they could prevent labor force outflow. An equation that determines the participation rate is estimated with GMM, using panel data (1986-1998) for Sweden’s ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Empirical Economics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0377-7332,1435-8921
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-012-0598-9