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Ebell, Monique - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which succeeds at generating … countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …

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Unemployment and Hours of Work: The North Atlantic Divide Revisited

Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …

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Fertility Decisions and Gender Differences in Labor Turnover, Employment, and Wages

Erosa, Andrés; Fuster, Luisa; Restuccia, Diego - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 5 (2002) 4, pp. 856-891

A striking observation of the U.S. and other labor markets is the weak position of women in terms of job attachment, employment, and earnings relative to men. We develop a model of fertility and labor market decisions to study the impact of fertility on gender differences in labor turnover,...

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Explaining Job Polarization in Europe: The Roles of Technology, Globalization and Institutions

Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan; Salomons, Anna - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

estimates a simple model to capture the effects of technology, globalization, institutions and product demand effects on the … attenuate the polarizing impact of routinization and that differences or changes in wage-setting institutions play little role …

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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard van den; Vroman, Susan - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009) 1, pp. 129-146

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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Anatomy of a Credit Crunch: From Capital to Labor Markets

Buera, Francisco; Fattal-Jaef, Roberto; Shin, Yongseok - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 18 (2015) 1, pp. 101-117

Why are financial crises associated with a sustained rise in unemployment? We develop a tractable model with frictions … unemployment. We then explore the micro-level impact by tracking the employment dynamics for firms of different sizes and ages. The …

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Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy

Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg; Redding, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

inequality and raises unemployment, but expected welfare gains are ensured if workers are risk neutral. And while wage inequality …

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The Impact of Disembodied Technological Progress on Unemployment

Prat, Julien - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 10 (2007) 1, pp. 106-125

This paper studies the relationship between disembodied technological progress and unemployment in a standard search … that disembodied technological progress increases the rate of unemployment. (Copyright: Elsevier) …

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Non-Walrasian Labor Markets and Real Business Cycles

Maffezzoli, Marco - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 4 (2001) 4, pp. 860-892

model in Daveri and Maffezzoli (2000), where unemployment is generated by monopolistic unions, and calibrate it to reproduce …

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Transitions into Unemployment and the Nature of Firing Costs

Delacroix, Alain - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 6 (2003) 3, pp. 651-671

's skill level. We establish that, for young workers, unemployment incidence increases with skill in high-firing-tax countries … maintaining unemployment duration and the unemployment rate as decreasing functions of skill in all countries. Because of constant …

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