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Japan and Her Dealings with Offshoring: An Empirical Analysis with Aggregate Data

Agnese, Pablo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …

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Unemployment Invariance

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …

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The Role of Sectoral Growth Patterns in Labor Market Development

Arias-Vazquez, Francisco Javier; Lee, Jean Nahrae; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...

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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal-Treatment Contracting

Martins, Pedro S.; Snell, Andy; Thomas, Jonathan P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

these constraints. Using simulated productivity data based on the post-war US economy, we analyse the ability of the model …

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Benefit Reentitlement Conditions in Unemployment Insurance Schemes

Andersen, Torben M.; Kristoffersen, Mark Strom; Svarer, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Unemployment insurance schemes include conditions on past employment history as part of the eligibility conditions. This aspect is often neglected in the literature which primarily focuses on benefit levels and benefit duration. In a search-matching framework we show that benefit duration and...

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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession

Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...

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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between...

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The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using German administrative linked employer-employee data for the years 1985-2010 and an estimation framework based on duration models, we construct a time series of the firm-level...

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Does the Size of the Effect of Adverse Events at High Ages on Daily-Life Physical Functioning Depend on the Economic Conditions Around Birth?

Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this outcome is larger in case of exposure to adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life...

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Unemployment Transitions to Stable and Unstable Jobs Before and During the Crisis

Nagore García, Amparo; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using administrative records data from Spanish Social Security, we analyse the pattern and the determinants of individual unemployment benefit spell durations. We compare a period of expansion (2005-2007) and the recent recession (2009-2011), allowing us to determine the impact of the current...

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