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Central and East European Labour Markets in Transition: Developments, Causes, and Cures

Franz, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The main questions addressed in this paper are: First, how did labour markets in the Visegrad countries react to the breakdown of a command economy and the transformation to a market economy? Second, which way ahead is likely, or to put it differently, what should be done now to improve...

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Policy Complementarities: The Case for Fundamental Labour Market Reform

Coe, David T; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper analyses complementarities among a variety of labour market policies. It shows: (a) that a wide range of labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at...

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Hiring And Firing Costs, Adverse Selection And The Persistence Of Unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents. In the model, firms use discretion in terms of whom...

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Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labour Market

Kugler, Adriana D.; Pica, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

dismissal costs. We exploit the fact that costs for unjust dismissals in Italy increased for firms below 15 employees relative … to bigger firms after 1990. We find that the increase in dismissal costs after 1990 decreased accessions and separations … increase in dismissal costs had smaller effects on turnover for women in sectors faced with strict product market regulations. …

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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Kugler, Adriana D.; Pica, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 … employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger firms, to set up a natural experiment research design. We find … that the increase in dismissal costs decreased accessions and separations for workers in small relative to big firms …

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Search and Matching in Macroeconomics

Yashiv, Eran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper surveys the use of search and matching models in macroeconomics. It outlines the standard model, discusses its extensions, presents alternative formulations, considers the empirical evidence, and studies applications to macroeconomic questions such as business cycles, growth, and...

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Labour Mobility in Australia in the Nineties: A Preliminary Look at the Effects of the Technological Change.

Junankar, P.N.; kapuscinski, C.A.; Meng, X. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997

This paper forms part of a larger Australian Research Council funded project designed to encrease our understanding of labour mobility and its determinants and , in particular, to trace the importance, strength and the effects of technological change on sectoral, occupational and inter-regional...

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Sorting and the output loss due to search frictions

Gautier, Pieter A; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the max-mean wage differential. The latter measure of...

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The High Unemployment Trap

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

A model of the labour market under firing restrictions and endogenous quits is constructed. It is shown that in the spirit of Blanchard and Summers (1988), the model can generate multiple equilibria, with a low-quits/high-unemployment equilibrium coexisting with a high-quits/low-unemployment...

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Are the Unemployed Unemployable?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper develops a matching model of the labour market under wage rigidity when hiring decisions are irreversible. There are two types of workers, the skilled and the unskilled. The model is used to analyse whether technological advances may have increased unemployment, and shows that this is...

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