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An International Comparison of Employment Adjustment to Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Burgess, Simon M.; Knetter, Michael M. - 2001

This paper evaluates the response of employment to exchange rate shocks at the industry level for G-7 countries. Using an empirical framework that places little structure on the data, we find that European industries, at least France and Germany, are much less influenced by exchange rate shocks...

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The ins and outs of European unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by … the late 1980s. -- Unemployment dynamics ; job finding rates ; job separation rates …

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Job Creation and Job Destruction in Great Britain in the 1980s

Blanchflower, David G.; Burgess, Simon M. - 1998

The authors investigate processes of job creation and job destruction in Britain, using data from the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984, and 1990. They find that rates of employment growth, job creation, job destruction, and job reallocation (the sum of job creation and job...

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Externalities in the matching of workers and firms in Britain

Burgess, Simon M.; Profit, Stefan - 1998

panel of outflows, unemployment and vacancy stocks data from the registers at Jobcentres in the UK; these are mapped on to … theory. For example, we find that conditional on local labour market conditions, high unemployment levels in neighbouring … areas raise the number of local filled vacancies but lower the local outflow from unemployment. -- matching model …