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This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
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consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …
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, framework conditions and political institutions increase the resilience towards adverse shocks and reduce the incidence of … institutions. The above exercises can be used to establish a governance process towards more resilient economic structures (as e …
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significantly higher proportion of female workers in Europe prefer inactivity and a significantly lower percentage prefer full …
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This article takes advantage of access to confidential matched bank-firm data relative to the Belgian economy to investigate how employment decisions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks'...
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We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods … unit roots in unemployment. Since this is potentially a narrow definition, we also take into account the existence of … structural breaks and non-linear dynamics in unemployment. Finally, we examine whether CEECs' unemployment presents features of …
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alternative monetary rules on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We use the inflation forecasts of 8 competing …
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paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a … reasonable elasticity of steady state unemployment with respect to changes in benefits. The calibration of the model implies low …
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … New Keynesian framework we argue that labor market institutions should be divided into those institutions that cause …
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This paper studies unemployment and vacancy developments in the euro area at the aggregate and country level over the … employment losses, especially in some sectors. The extent to which the rise in unemployment and particularly long …-term unemployment reflects growing mismatch across euro area labour markets is one of the biggest questions facing euro area labour …
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