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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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persisting increases in unemployment. This paper analyses the impacts of the crisis on euro area labour markets, paying … accelerate the adjustment capacity of euro area labour markets and help reduce the current high levels of structural unemployment. …
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inflation. Among other things, the unemployment gap, which is the difference between unemployment rate and non …-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), is used to measure inflationary pressure from the labour market. This paper examines … revisional property of the NAIRU is also examined, as well as the forecast capacity of the unemployment gap with regard to wages …
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unemployment rates. Using U.S. data, we find that individual labor force participation responds asymmetrically to changes in local … labor market conditions, consistent with the pattern of movements in the aggregate unemployment rate. Differences in the …
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It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …
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Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job?to?job transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment...
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In order to highlight the uneven impact of recession on the labor market in Catalonia (Spain), especially regarding wage structure, this study examines the evolution of its main variables in the period 2005-2012 from a gender perspective. For ten years prior to recession, female employment...
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Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...
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This paper evaluates the effects for the Spanish case of allowing greater flexibility regarding the weekly hours worked on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross-sectional distribution of workweeks across plants, as well as...
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Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120550