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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884315
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The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy
Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A.; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233799
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Unemployment in the OECD: Models and Mysteries
Junankar, P. N.; Madsen, Jakob B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper compares models used to explain OECD unemployment. The models suggest that the “natural rate of unemployment” has been driven up mainly by wage push factors. Panel data on twenty-two OECD countries are used to investigate the explanatory power of these models over the past two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703112
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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates
Oreopoulos, Philip; Wachter, Till von; Heisz, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822077
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The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural?
Candelon, Bertrand; Dupuy, Arnaud; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a procedure that permits us to test for the … the 0/1 paradigm about the order of integration, usually implemented for testing the hypothesis of hysteresis in … occupational unemployment. In almost all occupations, we find support for both the structuralist and the hysteresis hypotheses, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822105
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Unemployment, Growth and Fiscal Policy: New Insights on the Hysteresis Hypothesis
Raurich, Xavier; Sala, Hector; Sorolla, Valeri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
equilibrium paths. Hysteresis is viewed as the result of a selection between these different equilibrium paths. We use this model … of the 1970’s may have played a central role in generating hysteresis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822131
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Persistencies in the Labour Market
Frijters, Paul; Lindeboom, Maarten; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
transition rates. We focus on hysteresis effects of the durations and incidence of previous spells out of work. We estimate … rates to work, and sometimes also from work. The quantitative magnitude of persistency and hysteresis effects on inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070417
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Labor Market Institutions and Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Murao, Tetsushi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Graduating from a school during a time of adverse economic conditions has a persistent, harmful effect on workers' subsequent employment opportunities. An analysis of panel data from OECD countries during the 1960-2010 periods reveals that a worker who experiences a one-percentage-point higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095493
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Public Sector Pay and Regional Competitiveness: A First Look at Regional Public-Private Wage Differentials in Italy
Carlo Dell’Aringa; Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper investigates regional public-private wage differentials in Italy. Following the recent wave of reforms that significantly changed wage setting and employment relations in both sectors - increasing decentralisation in collective bargaining and enforcing a "privatisation" of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703046
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Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case
Krause, Annabelle; Schüller, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990917