Showing 1 - 10 of 714
in unemployment and vacancies but also wages, is the drop in consumption for the unemployed. In addition, explaining the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090796
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069369
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634553
The common view that far-reaching labour market deregulation is the only remedy for high European unemployment is too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669585
The staff report for the 2006 Article IV Consultation on Botswana highlights economic developments and monetary and exchange rate policy. Botswana’s growth has been fueled by continued increases in diamond production; and real diamond output is projected to level off, and then decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244994
Upon entry into the European Union, countries become members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), with a derogation from adopting the euro as their currency (that is, each country joining the EU commits to replace its national currency with the euro, but can choose when to request...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767345
This paper studies the determinants of hiring. We use the search-matching model with imperfect competition in the product market from Carlsson, Eriksson and Gottfries (2011) to derive an equation for total hiring in a local labor market, and estimate it on Swedish panel data. When product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399691
unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699694
, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196920
By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196930