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Labour market institutions and the employment intensity of output growth : an international comparison
Flaig, Gebhard (contributor); Rottmann, Horst (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624870
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Labor market institutions, fiscal multipliers, and macroeconomic volatility
Boeck, Maximilian; Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Glocker, … - 2022
We study empirically how various labor market institutions - (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration, and (iii) employment protection - shape fiscal multipliers and output volatility. Our theoretical model highlights that more stringent labor market institutions attenuate both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013201691
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Labour market counter-reforms in OECD countries : conditional impact on output and employment growth
Wiese, Rasmus; Jalles, João Tovar; Haan, Jakob de - 2024
growth in 25 OECD countries between 1973 and 2012. We use a novel, narrative-based dataset of reform indicators and apply the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014578524
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The employment effect of reforming a public employment agency
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2015
unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … reduction explains just about 5% of the observed decline. Due to disincentive effects resulting from the reform, the reform of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309228
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Cousins from overseas : the labour market impact of a major forced return migration shock
Bohnet, Lara; Peralta, Susana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022
We study the labour market impact of a major shock of return migration, following the end of the Portuguese Colonial War in 1974. The retornados influx is unique because of its size (half a million people in a country of nine million), and similarity with the native population (almost 80% of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013383605
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The rise of generative AI : modelling exposure, substitution, and inequality effects on the US labour market
Auer, Raphael A.; Köpfer, David; Švéda, Josef - 2024
How exposed is the labour market to ever-advancing AI capabilities, to what extent does this substitute human labour, and how will it affect inequality? We address these questions in a simulation of 711 US occupations classified by the importance and level of cognitive skills. We base our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077845
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Institutions and structural unemployment : do capital-market imperfections matter?
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer - 2001
This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398923
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227178
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Does venture capital investment spur employment growth?
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2003
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507850
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Labour market performance and start-up costs : OECD evidence
López-García, Paloma - 2003
, namely, the employment shift from industry and agriculture to services. The second contribution of the paper is the focus on … successfully absorb the workers released from the agriculture and industry sector. The result is higher unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514145