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Short-time work compensations and employment
Cahuc, Pierre - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404834
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Short-time work compensation schemes and employment
Cahuc, Pierre - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120538
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The labor market in Sweden since the 1990s
Gottfries, Nils - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
The economic crisis in the early 1990s brought about a dramatic increase in unemployment and a similar decrease in … labor force participation. Unemployment declined afterwards, but stabilized at around 6–7%—more than twice as high as before … the crisis. Today, the unemployment rate is lower than the EU average, though Sweden no longer stands out in this respect …
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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation
Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019
unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026458
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Short-time work compensations and employment
Cahuc, Pierre - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884429
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Deep dynamics
Gottfries, Nils; Mickelsson, Glenn; Stadin, Karolina - 2021
How do firms adjust their output, inventories, employment and capital in response to demandsideshocks? To understand this, we estimate a reduced-form model using firm-level panel dataand we construct a theoretical model that can match the estimated impulse-response functions.A combination of...
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Testing theories of job creation : does supply create its own demand?
Carlsson, Mikael (contributor); Eriksson, Stefan (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003457494
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Two-tier labor markets in the great recession : France vs. Spain
Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 2010
labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008757525