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Employment-Productivity Trade-off and Labour Composition

Boulhol, Hervé - 2009

This paper formalises the analysis of the employment-productivity trade-off by extending the framework developed by Gordon (1997) to account for labour heterogeneity. The extent of the trade-off is determined by the extent of the adjustment of capital to effective labour and by the changes in...

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The Effects of Population Structure on Employment and Productivity

Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

The composition of the working-age population can influence aggregate employment and average productivity because both employment rates and productivity levels vary across population groups. This paper assesses the quantitative importance of the working-age population broken down by age, gender...

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Employment-Productivity Trade-off and Labour Composition

Boulhol, Hervé; Turner, Laure - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

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Immigration, Unemployment and Wages : New Causality Evidence from the United Kingdom

Tunali, Cigdem Börke - 2017

unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

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Labour Market Performance by Age Groups: A Focus on France

Boulhol, Hervé; Sicari, Patrizio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

contribution of each age group to total unemployment-rate differentials is also computed. An estimate of the sensitivity of age …-specific unemployment rates to the economic cycle is provided for OECD countries. France is one of the OECD countries having the highest …’s total unemployment rate differential with best-performing countries. Youth unemployment rate is especially sensitive to …

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Making the Labour Market Work Better in Poland

Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...

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Unemployment, Growth and Speed of Transition in China

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2013

We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …

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Unemployment, Growth and Speed of Transition in China

Fidrmuc, Jan; Huang, Shuo - CESifo - 2013

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Friday the 13th : The Empirics of Bad Luck

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2014

We use the UK Labor Force survey to investigate whether the socio-economic outcomes of people born on the 13th day of the month, and of those born on Friday the 13th, differ from the outcomes of people born on more auspicious days. In many European countries, including the UK, such days are...

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National Minimum Wage and Employment of Young Workers in the UK

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2013

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature found little evidence of an adverse impact of the NMW on the UK labor market. We focus on the age-related increases in the NMW at 18 and 22 years of age. Using regression...

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