Labour Force Participation and the Business Cycle: A Comparative Analysis of Europe, Japan and the United States
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Participation rates; business cycle; asymmetric responses; discouraged worker effects;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
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