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Macroeconomic Policy Lessons of Labor Market Frictions

Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The paper explores the consequences of macroeconomic policy for labor market outcomes in the presence of frictions. It shows how policy may be useful in overriding frictions, as well as how it might generate adverse outcomes. The analysis looks at the main tools of macroeconomic policy and...

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On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Kosfeld, Reinhold; Dreger, Christian; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, the framework of the aggregated Beveridge curve is used to investigate the effectiveness of the job matching process using German regional labour market data. For a fixed matching technology, the Beveridge curve postulates a negative relationship between the unemployment rate and...

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The Recent Evolution of the Natural Rate of Unemployment

Daly, Mary C.; Hobijn, Bart; Valletta, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The U.S. economy is recovering from the financial crisis and ensuing deep recession, but the unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high. Some have argued that the persistent elevation of unemployment relative to historical norms reflects the fact that the shocks that hit the economy were...

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Fixed and Mixed Effects Models in Meta-Analysis

Konstantopoulos, Spyros - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The last three decades the accumulation of quantitative research evidence has led to the development of systematic methods for combining information across samples of related studies. Although a few methods have been described for accumulating research evidence over time, meta-analysis is widely...

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Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Drawing on the 2007 and 2010 Swaziland Labor Force Surveys, this paper provides first systematic evidence on recent youth employment challenges in Swaziland, a small, land-locked, middle-income country with one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the...

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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...

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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) longitudinal survey data. We find a positive …

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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia

Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

the provision of paid parental leave, even for short periods (as usually available in Australia), will benefit children …

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Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...

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The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain

McGuinness, Seamus Mcguinness; sloane, peter james; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …

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