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In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much...
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in explaining the variability of unemployment and vacancies. If we incorporate long-term wage contracts into the model …
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detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …
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characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …
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Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....
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In 2007 the General Statistics Office (GSO) launched a joint research program with the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD) to measure and analyzes the informal sector in Vietnam. Two kinds of surveys were conducted in 2007: a national Labour Force Survey (LFS) which, in a first...
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output-inflation tradeoff equation, whereby inflation shocks raise current output. The limiting impact of mean inflation and …
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Vietnam is one of the only South East Asian emerging economies not to have gone into recession in 2009 in the wake of the world crisis. Nonetheless, it has been affected deeply by the crisis, as shown by all macro-economic indicators. The yearly growth rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has...
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function is used to model unemployment. The standard model can generate sufficiently large cyclical fluctuations in … unemployment, or a sufficiently small response of unemployment to labor market policies, but it cannot do both. Variable search and …
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Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate … procyclical unemployment rates and cannot match unemployment variability relative to GDP. We embed endogenous participation in a … variabilities but also generates strongly countercyclical unemployment rates. With some wage rigidity the model also matches …
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