Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 43
Cover Image
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
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359856
Cover Image
Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Wolthoff, Ronald; Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763742
Cover Image
Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570784
Cover Image
Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256974
Cover Image
On-the-Job Search and Sorting
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257478
Cover Image
The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Veronica; Marx, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727778
Cover Image
Unemployment and Search Externalities in a Model with Heterogeneous Jobs and Heterogeneous Workers
Gautier, Pieter A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
This discussion paper has resulted in an article in 'Economica', 2002, 69(273), 21-40.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256288
Cover Image
Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804896
Cover Image
On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks
Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566458
Cover Image
Economic Performance and Unemployment: Evidence from an Emerging Economy - Turkey
Berument, Hakan; Dogan, Nukhet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment rate … and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and … female unemployment rates separately. To examine the relationship, a quarterly VAR model with a recursive order is employed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566503