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Gross Labour Market Flows in Europe: Some Stylized Facts

Burda, Michael C; Wyplosz, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

The purpose of this paper is to establish some stylized facts on gross labor market flows - using mostly new data from France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States - which any theory of unemployment ought to explain. The regularities on gross labor market flows that we isolate are...

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The Labour Force Participation of Older Men in Britain, 1951-81

Johnson, Paul A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

This paper evaluates the relative impact of range of health, economic and structural factors on the employment experience of older male workers in Britain in the 30 years since 1951. It is based on a cross sectional analysis of data on age of workforce in 34 industrial sectors drawn from the...

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Cohort Size and Female Labor Supply

Gustafsson, Siv - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and decreasing female labor supply. This paper reviews the literature on the substitutability of female for male labor, on relative income changes as a result of changes in cohort size and...

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Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Welfare in Europe

Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period. The consequences of demographic developments for...

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Patterns of Unemployment: An Insider-Outsider Analysis

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

The paper presents a stochastic insider-outsider model that accounts for the following stylized facts: (1) unemployment rates display a high degree of serial correlation, or `persistence'; (2) the average rate of unemployment has been higher in the United States than in Europe over the 1950s and...

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Human Resources & the Labour Force: Issues for Contemporary & Comparative Research

Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984

This paper emphasises some of the outstanding issues on the agenda for research on the labour force in Britain. It surveys topics but not results and does not attempt to review the literature or current research. Human resources are defined as the potential for creating economic welfare through...

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Why do within firm-product export prices differ across markets?

Görg, Holger; Halpern, László; Muraközy, Balázs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In this paper we analyse the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for particular firm-product...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...

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Taxes and Subsidies in the Transforming Hungarian Economy

Revesz, Tamas; Zalai, Erno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

accords with economic principles. The authors explain how the `state' should be defined in Hungary, discuss the main forms of … research exercise!), further reform of the tax and public expenditure system, and extensive training of Hungary's public …

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Unemployment Insurance and Incentives in Hungary

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

We investigate the effect of changes in unemployment insurance (UI) rules in Hungary on the outflow rate from the UI … register. Existing claims to UI are `grandfathered' in Hungary when UI rules change - new rules are applied only to new claims … unemployed in Hungary to be fairly inelastic to changes in UI benefits. …

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