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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...

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Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reforms?

Belot, Michèle; van Ours, Jan C. - 2000

unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …

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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services

D’Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; … - 2006

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...

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Large employers are more cyclically sensitive

Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2009

We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269006

This job is getting old: measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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Coming to America: does immigrant's home country economic status impact the probability of self-employment in the U.S.?

Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo; Belton, Willie - 2009

This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants from developed countries are more likely to be self-employed in the U.S than are immigrants from...

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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services

D'Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie E. - 2006

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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013

This paper provides a model of social hysteresis whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances fall....

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What do participation fluctuations tell us about labor supply elasticities?

Haefke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 2011

participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the variability of unemployment and participation, and the negative … correlation of unemployment and GDP, implies an aggregate labor supply elasticity along the extensive margin of around 0.3 for men …

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International labour force participation rates by gender: Unit root or structural breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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