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relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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...
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examining the relationship between output and demand as mediated by changes in unemployment, or Okun's law. We also demonstrate …
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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...
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Shimer and Hall point out how new measurements of the job finding probability explain unemployment volatility significantly …
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capital, may affect European unemployment in two, mutually enforcing, ways. Firstly the existence of minimum non …. Unemployment and minimum living costs are also increased by an increase in population, by an increase in the relative productivity …
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This paper examines the causes of observed increase in the duration of unemployment relative to the unemployment rate … the change in the structure of unemployment duration. In particular, we examine how much of the observed change can be … unemployment insurance and the change in union affiliation. We show that changes in the composition of the labor force and …
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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...
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