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Employment in Poland 2005
Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005
present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556757
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Whodunnit? Changes in the Relative Demand for Unskilled and Skilled Labor
Schimmelpfennig, Axel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999
relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755135
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The Macroeconomics of the Labor Market: Three Fundamental Views
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run ‡uctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755272
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Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence
Glyn, Andrew - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003
This paper provides a critical view of the cross country literature on the impact of labour market institutions and … policies on the evolving pattern of unemployment in OECD countries. Such widely used indicators as the generosity of … unemployment insurance or the strength of trade unions are neither strongly correlated individually with unemployment nor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977897
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Working-week flexibility: Implications for employment and productivity
Osuna, Victoria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly hours worked introduced in the recent Spanish labour market reform (the 2012 reform). A crucial aspect of the model will be the extent to which firms will be able to choose the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956138
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Heterogeneity and Aggregation in the Labor Market: Implications for Aggregate Preference Shifts
Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-Bin - EconWPA - 2004
The cyclical behavior of hours worked, wages, and consumption does not conform with the prediction of the representative agent with standard preferences. The residual in the intra-temporal first-order condition for commodity consumption and leisure is often viewed as a failure of labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076681
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Provision of public goods, voting and agglomerative bias
Kopp, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
Skill-biased technical change is identified as the driving force behind the changing skill composition in OECD countries rather than structural change. The finding is partly the result of the sectoral view taken. This paper suggests a different view which uses the production process as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276245
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On Short-Term Contracts Regulations
Nunziata, Luca; Staffolani, Stefano - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001
the employment performances of those countries. Moreoever, these institutions act asymmetrically along the business cycle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605131
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Labour Market Institutions and Economic Performance
Nickell, S.; Layard, R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997
This paper is a preliminary draft of a chapter for the new Handbook of Labour Economics edited by Orley Ashenfelter and David Card and Published by North Holland.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005776253
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From Individual to Aggregate Labor Supply: A Quantitative Analysis Based on a Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomy
Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-Bin - EconWPA - 2003
We investigate the mapping from individual to aggregate labor supply using a general equilibrium heterogeneous-agent model with an incomplete market. The nature of heterogeneity among workers is calibrated using wage data from the PSID. The gross worker flows between employment and nonemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126339