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analyze the effects of the German unemployment insurance - the reality in Germany compared to the theory - an evaluation of …Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten … Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende Beschäftigungskrise vor? Und in welchem Umfang hat das deutsche Sozial- und Wohlfahrtssystem zu …
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years, accompanied by a steep rise in unemployment, which would be around 11.5% in 2010 in the euro area. However, labour … soften the impact of much higher unemployment levels on Europe's potential rate of growth in the future. …
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This paper extends the literature on learning in labor markets by parameterizing the amount of learning that transfers across jobs. Previous models have assumed that learning is either job specific as in Jovanovic (1979) or perfectly transferable across jobs as in Gibbons et al. (2005). By...
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Our paper studies the causes of poverty from the perspective of job search. We show that poor people remain poor because they have less time and initial endowment to search for a better job. Initial endowment is key to successful job search, as one can afford not to work and search longer for a...
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unemployment. Member States should continue along the line of reforms followed so far. The Commission has stressed the importance …
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The conventional search and matching model has been criticized for its inability to explain large cyclical volatility … in the vacancy-unemployment ratio without ad hoc assumptions of wage rigidity. This paper presents a mechanism of such … economy, and the vacancy-unemployment ratio experiences large cyclical fluctuations. …
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Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in … force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to inflation and labor force was developed and successfully tested for …. Nevertheless, the model explains between ~65% and ~95% of the variability in unemployment and inflation. For Italy, the rate of …
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Matching models are the primary and most popular theoretical tools used by economists to evaluate various labour market … policies and to study the problem of unemployment. These notes mean to provide an exhaustive introduction to the study of the …
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estimation is based on the corrected LFS unemployment rate for the employment in the grey economy. …
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This paper argues that existing matching models with unemployment as an active search and nonparticipation as an … inactive search predict counterfactual results: the unemployment rate is at most two times as volatile as the … employmentpopulation ratio; only 20 percent of the actual volatility of the unemployment rate is accounted for; and the labor market …
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