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Nominal and real wage rigidities. In theory and in Europe

Knell, Markus - 2010

In this paper I study the relation between real wage rigidity (RWR) and nominal price and wage rigidity. I show that in a standard DSGE model RWR is mainly affected by the interaction of the two nominal rigidities and not by other structural parameters. The degree of RWR is, however,...

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Shifts in the job structure in Europe during the Great Recession

Hurley, John; Storrie, Donald; Jungblut, Jean-Marie - 2011

[...] this report will show the value of the jobs approach in analysing the changing structure of employment in the two turbulent years of the Great Recession.

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Shifts in the job structure in Europe during the Great Recession : Technical background paper

Hurley, John; Storrie, Donald; Jungblut, Jean-Marie - 2011

The report describes the impact of the ‘great recession’ on employment and the job structure in the EU27. Quintile charts are used to give a simple, graphical representation of the extent of employment change in a given period as well as an indication of how that change has been distributed...

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Can Labour Market Institutions Explain Unemployment Rates in New EU Member States?

Ederveen, Sjef; Thissen, Laura - 2004

This study poses the question about whether labour market institutions can explain unemployment rates in the ten new … European Union member states. In five out of the ten new member states, unemployment rates lie above the average in the 15 … institutions in the acceding countries are less rigid than in the EU-15. Moreover, labour market institutions explain only a minor …

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