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Whodunnit? Changes in the relative demand for unskilled and skilled labor

Schimmelpfennig, Axel - 1999

relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

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The macroeconomics of the labor market: Three fundamental views

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

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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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Provision of public goods, voting and agglomerative bias

Kopp, Andreas - 1998

Skill-biased technical change is identified as the driving force behind the changing skill composition in OECD countries rather than structural change. The finding is partly the result of the sectoral view taken. This paper suggests a different view which uses the production process as a...

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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

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Why do Europeans work part-time? A cross-country panel analysis.

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 2008

consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …

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Interactions between employment and training policies

Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers...

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The effect of low-wage subsidies on skills and employment

Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on aggregate employment. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of unskilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff of unskilled work relative to...

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The heterogeneity and cyclical sensitivity of unemployment : an exploration of German labor market flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

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 …

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Inflation Forecasts, monetary policy and unemployment dynamics: evidence from the US and the euro area

Altavilla, Carlo; Ciccarelli, Matteo - 2007

alternative monetary rules on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We use the inflation forecasts of 8 competing …

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