The Dual U.S. Labor Market Uncovered

The Dual U.S. Labor Market Uncovered
Author: Hie Joo Ahn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre:
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Aggregate U.S. labor market dynamics are well approximated by a dual labor market supplemented with a third, predominantly, home-production segment. We uncover this structure by estimating a Hidden Markov Model, a machine-learning method. The different market segments are identified through (in-)equality constraints on labor market transition probabilities. This method yields time series of stocks and flows for the three segments for 1980-2021. Workers in the primary sector, who make up around 55 percent of the population, are almost always employed and rarely experience unemployment. The secondary sector, which constitutes 14 percent of the population, absorbs most of the short-run fluctuations, both at seasonal and business cycle frequencies. Workers in this segment experience six times higher turnover rates than those in the primary tier and are ten times more likely to be unemployed than their primary counterparts. The tertiary segment consists of workers who infrequently participate in the labor market but nevertheless experience unemployment when they try to enter the labor force. Our individual-level analysis shows that observable demographic characteristics only explain a small part of the cross-individual variation in segment membership. The combination of the aggregate and individual-level evidence we provide points to dualism in the U.S. labor market being an equilibrium division of labor, under labor market imperfections, that minimizes adjustment costs in response to predictable seasonal as well as unpredictable business cycle fluctuations.

The Dual Labor Market

The Dual Labor Market
Author: Samuel Rosenberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1975
Genre: Employment (Economic theory)
ISBN:

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Beyond Industrial Dualism

Beyond Industrial Dualism
Author: Thierry J. Noyelle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429721846

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This book attempts to identify some principal dimensions of the process of market and job restructuring by means of case studies of service companies. It places special emphasis on the job restructuring issue and, in particular, on the decline of internal labor markets in the U.S. economy.

Dual Labor Markets

Dual Labor Markets
Author: Gilles Saint-Paul
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Labor market
ISBN: 9780262282826

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