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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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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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Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2021

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …

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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency

Gautier, Pieter A. - 2011

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...

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Collective versus Decentralized Wage Bargaining and the Efficient Allocation of Resources

Cai, Xiaoming - 2015

An advantage of collective wage agreement is that search and business-stealing externalities can be internalized. A disadvantage is that it takes more time before an optimal allocation is reached because more productive firms (for a particular worker type) can no longer signal this by posting...

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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance

Gautier, Pieter A. - 2015

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...

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The Declining Competitiveness of French Firms Reflects a Generalised Supply-Side Problem

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

This short paper analyses the decline of France’s trade balance over the past 15 years. While the loss in export market shares is comparable to that of the major OECD countries except Germany, it is one of the largest among the countries of the euro area. The determinants of this outcome seem...

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