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The Determinants of Hiring in Local Labor Markets: The Role of Demand and Supply Factors
Eriksson, Stefan; Stadin, Karolina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of hiring. We use the search-matching model with imperfect competition in the product market from Carlsson, Eriksson and Gottfries (2011) to derive an equation for total hiring in a local labor market, and estimate it on Swedish panel data. When product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399691
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Vacancy Matching and Labor Market Conditions
Stadin, Karolina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699694
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Indivisible Labor and Its Supply Elasticity: Do Taxes Explain European Employment?
Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
role to cross-country differences in social unemployment insurance institutions that Prescott argues can be safely ignored …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069229
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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations
Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644526
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Incentives in Business and Academia
Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009
This paper discusses some issues of compensation policy in business and academia from the perspectives of incentive theory, other theories, and empirical research. The main conclusion is that mechanical rules for performance-related pay are likely to be inferior to more subjective performance...
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How Large are Search Frictions
Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027237
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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change: Sweden, 1975–2005
Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane’s (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322948
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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Holter, Hans A; Chakraborty, Indraneel; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762003
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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Chakraborty, Indraneel; Stepanchuk, Serhiy; Holter, Hans A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700373
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Labor-Force Participation Rates and the Informational Value of Unemployment Rates: Evidence from Disaggregated US Data
Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010
The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned because of a unit root in … the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are … highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in joblessness. This paper shows that this critique also extends to unemployment …
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