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Disaggregate Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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Large employers are more cyclically sensitive
Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2009
We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...
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Impacts of labor taxation with perfectly and imperfectly competitive domestic labor markets under flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
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Labour market dynamics in Australia: what drives unemployment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services
D'Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie E. - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
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Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks? Aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries
Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David; Paci, Pierella - 2011
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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The effect of weather-induced internal migration on local labor markets: Evidence from Uganda
Strobl, Eric; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012
Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Our results reveal a significant negative impact. Consistent with...
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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs : Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Estrin, Saul; Meyer, Klaus - 2004
Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...
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