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A Test between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data

Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …

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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective

Sahin, Afsin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, Hakan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with...

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The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European countries, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. We compare performance in these three countries making use of both administrative and labor force survey data. We find that the...

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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...

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How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

avoiding problems of mismeasurement of local labor markets encountered in previous work. We develop a theory of job search … across space that allows us to estimate a matching process with a very large number of areas. Estimates of this model show …

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Determinants of Transitions across Formal / Informal Sectors in Egypt

Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We first provide a diagnosis of dynamic worker flows...

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Job and Wage Mobility in a Search Model with Non-Compliance (Exemptions) with the Minimum Wage

Eckstein, Zvi; Ge, Suqin; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

How well does a simple search on-the-job model fit the eighteen years of job and wage mobility of high school graduates … wage. We incorporate this observation in a job search model with three main ingredients: (i) search on-the-job; (ii … data drawn from the NLSY79, US youth panel starting in 1979, to estimate the parameters of our simple job search model and …

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Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

Ngai, L. Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women...

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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

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