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Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper develops a matching model of the labour market under wage rigidity when hiring decisions are irreversible. There are two types of workers, the skilled and the unskilled. The model is used to analyse whether technological advances may have increased unemployment, and shows that this is...

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A Contribution to Unemployment Dynamics

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

aggregate labour maket activity in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States is constructed, and the sources of …

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Central and East European Labour Markets in Transition: Developments, Causes, and Cures

Franz, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The main questions addressed in this paper are: First, how did labour markets in the Visegrad countries react to the breakdown of a command economy and the transformation to a market economy? Second, which way ahead is likely, or to put it differently, what should be done now to improve...

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How Labour Market Flexibility Affects Unemployment: Long-Term Implications of the Chain Reaction Theory

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the outcome of the interplay between labour market shocks...

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Earnings, Unemployment, And Housing: Evidence From A Panel Of British Regions

Cameron, Gavin; Muellbauer, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper models regional earnings and unemployment in the ten regions of Great Britain between 1972 and 1995, paying particular attention to their interaction and to the important influence of the housing market. In contrast to Blanchard and Katz (1992, 1997) for the United States, we find...

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Unemployment Duration and Exit States in Britain

Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This Paper presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s, using a nationally representative data set. It examines the impact of individual and local labour market characteristics on the probability of unemployment spells ending with...

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Unemployment in East and West Europe

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the …

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When do 'Female' Occupations Pay More?

Harmgart, Heike; Jurajda, Stepan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 … using a sample of social-security wage records for full-time workers. East Germany, which features a somewhat higher degree … related to the West German wage gap, but in East Germany, wages of both men and women are higher in predominantly female …

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Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition

Jurajda, Stepan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Transition countries hoping to join the European Union are in the process of introducing western-type anti-discrimination policies aimed at reducing the gender wage gap. The efficacy of these policies depends on the relative size of those elements of the gap they target; therefore, it is...

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Evaluating Unemployment Policies: What do the Underlying Theories Tell Us?

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy prescriptions rest on different macroeconomic theories, and our...

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