Similar Search Results

Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU

Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024

This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014558979

Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle

Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446155

The macroeconomic effects of a carbon tax to meet the U.S. Paris Agreement target: the role of firm creation and technology adoption

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2021

externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of … consumption and output; a marginal increase in the unemployment and labor force participation rates; and an expansion in the … accompanied by gradual gains in output and consumption and a negligible expansion in unemployment. Critically, abstracting from …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519987

Patterns, trends and policy implications of private spending on skills development in Mexico and the United States

Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela - 2017

This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States. The paper uses a series of high-quality Household...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661892

Commuting in Europe: an inter-regional analysis on its determinants and spatial effects

Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020

opportunities, here expressed as the unemployment rate differential for each single territory with respect to its surroundings …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306744

The US inflation-unemployment tradeoff : methodological issues and further evidence

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009

chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the US. It is argued that … inflation/unemployment responses to money growth shocks. SVAR (structural vector autoregression) and GMM (generalised method of … and real sides of the economy are symbiotic. In the light of the significant and robust long-run inflation-unemployment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877115

Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011

This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate country-specific systems of labour demand and Gini coefficient...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009157624

AI unboxed and jobs : a novel measure and firm-level evidence from three countries

Engberg, Erik; Görg, Holger; Lodefalk, Magnus; Javed, … - 2023

We unbox developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to estimate how exposure to these developments affect firm-level labour demand, using detailed register data from Denmark, Portugal and Sweden over two decades. Based on data on AI capabilities and occupational work content, We develop and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445928

Institutions and the environment : existing evidence and future directions

Dasgupta, Shouro; De Cian, Enrica - 2016

institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental outcomes, and investments. The paper describes how the … relationship between institutions and various response variables related to environmental performance and environmental policy have …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485706

Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification

Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011686131