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Current unemployment variance decomposition and consequences of using proxies
Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Foguel, Miguel Nathan; … - 2021
We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …
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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428556
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Fiscal austerity, unemployment and family firms
Munkacsi, Zsuzsa - 2015
I calculate unemployment multipliers of fiscal consolidation policies in a standard, closed-economy New Keynesian … percentage of family firms in the labor force. I find that fiscal austerity raises unemployment. Both at peak and cumulatively …, unemployment reacts least when the budget is consolidated by increasing the rate of value-added tax. At peak, the highest increase …
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Measuring the UK short-run NAIRU
Batini, Nicoletta; Greenslade, Jennifer V. - 2003
This paper derives alternative measures of the short-run NAIRU (SRN) for the UK, the rate for unemployment at which … a beneficial impact on RPIX inflation over the last few years. We show that deviations of unemployment from the short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517881
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The rise of the added worker effect
Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016
We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
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Estimating the effects of public training on Polish unemployment by way of the augmented matching function approach
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428265
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Public works for Poland? : active labour market policies during transition
Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1996
Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622125
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Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?
Ivanov, Boris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlan, Laura - 2019
In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...
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Residential mobility and unemployment in the UK
Langella, Monica; Manning, Alan - 2019
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Economic growth through worker reallocation : the role of knowledge spillovers
Mäkynen, Eero - 2021
An establishment can improve its productivity by hiring workers from more productive establishments. Then, how important is worker reallocation for aggregate productivity growth? To study this question, I develop a general equilibrium model where knowledge transmits as workers reallocate from...
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