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following government consumption, investment and employment shocks in a RBC and a New- Keynesian model and use part of them to … real wages and employment contemporaneously both in US aggregate and in US state data. The dynamics in response to … employment shocks are mixed, but in many cases are inconsistent with the predictions of the RBC model. …
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the lower productivity, more labour-intensive service sectors of the economy to improve their poor employment performance. …
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in an economy with informal jobs. For instance, attempts to protect employment by increasing .ring costs will reallocate …
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employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter considers why it is sensible to think of labour markets as …
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This paper shows, using data from both the US and the UK, that average plant size is larger in denser markets. However, many popular theories of agglomeration – spillovers, cost advantages and improved match quality – predict that establishments should be smaller in cities. The paper...
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-consumption. We provide an example of how this concept of informal activities can be operationalised to analyse informal employment …
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“The standard explanation of why advanced Europe has generated less work per adult than the US is that something is seriously amiss with EU labor markets. The theme of this piece is simple. Compared to an ideal competitive market, EU labor markets fall seriously short, but compared to labor...
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This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …
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This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …
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Market work per person of working age differs widely across the OECD countries and there have been some significant changes in the last forty years. How to explain this pattern? Taxes are part of the story but much remains to be explained. If we include all the elements of the social security...
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