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Capital Accumulation and Unemployment:New Insights on the Nordic Experience
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Salvador, Pablo F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. Thisrole has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission …-equation unemployment rate models... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861659
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A new look at the discouragement and the added worker hypotheses : applying a trend-cycle decomposition to unemployment
Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a … trend component of unemployment, which triggers permanent reactions of the workers, is likely connected to a structural … effect. By splitting up the participation effect of changes in the unemployment rate our analysis differs profoundly from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691302
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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and unemployment : a review on new search models
Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592293
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What explains changes in full-time and part-time employment in Western Germany? : a new method on an old question
Klinger, Sabine; Wolf, Katja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592346
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Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996 - 2003
Myck, Michal; Morawski, Leszek; Mycielski, Jerzy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
1996-2003. During these years unemployment in Poland almost doubled. We show that about a quarter of the growth in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963756
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What explains changes in full-time and part-time employment in Western Germany? : a new method on an old question
Klinger, Sabine; Wolf, Katja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537086
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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and unemployment : a review on new search models
Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537096
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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859632
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity:Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increasejob search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influencesthe arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workerssend out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861860
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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship?A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively andsystematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862087