Showing 1 - 10 of 237
This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604671
evidence of large heterogeneities among demographic groups. Interestingly, unemployment rates in levels across demographic … groups are not necessarily aligned with the sensitivity of these demographic groups’ (un)employment and participation rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991880
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001675874
consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604918
the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962116
the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163054
unemployment, several European economies display highly persistent unemployment dynamics. The theory of hysteresis challenges this … strong empirical evidence of unemployment hysteresis in advanced economies since the 1990s. Relying on an identification … amplify the effects of demand shocks. Our results indicate that strengthening labor market institutions that promote a faster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130633
find a positive and significant relationship between sales and unemployment and perform a time series principal component …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389529
German unemployment in the long term, and the cyclical sensitivity of the unemployment experience across demographic groups …. The analysis moves beyond that of unemployment rates to a detailed investigation of transition rates from employment to … unemployment and vice versa. While long-term differences across demographic groups are dominating the structure of both job loss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001449808
paper, we present a model with equilibrium unemployment which has three distinctive properties. First, using a search and …, which allows the model to reproduce the fluctuations of unemployment over the business cycle. And third, the model implies a … reasonable elasticity of steady state unemployment with respect to changes in benefits. The calibration of the model implies low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604969