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Research and policy issues in high-skilled international migration : a perspective with data from the United States

Regets, Mark C. - 2001

Highly-skilled migrants are becoming a more important part of the world economy and of policy debates in a diverse set of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of...

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What are the Main Obstacles to Hiring after Recessions in Europe?

Savsek, Simon - 2021

This paper assesses the relative importance of perceived obstacles to hiring workers on a permanent basis faced by EU firms and studies how they depend on firm’s characteristics. Findings suggest that the main obstacles to hiring in Europe are high uncertainty, shortage of skilled labour, high...

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Why Do Europeans Work Part-Time? A Cross-Country Panel Analysis

Mourre, Gilles; Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 2021

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

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On market forces an human evolution

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

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The Employment Consequences of SMEs’ Credit Constraints in the Wake of the Great Recession

Cornille, David - 2017

This article takes advantage of access to confidential matched bank-firm data relative to the Belgian economy to investigate how employment decisions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks'...

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Cyclical inflation divergence and different labor market institutions in the EMU

Campolmi, Alessia; Faia, Ester - 2006

differences in labor market institutions across the same set of countries. It does that by using a DSGE model for a currency area … with sticky prices and labor market frictions. We show that differences in labor market institutions account well for … cyclical inflation differentials. The proposed mechanism is a supply side one in which differences in labor market institutions …

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Real price and wage rigidities in a model with matching frictions

Kuester, Keith - 2007

This paper incorporates search and matching frictions in the labor market into a New Keynesian model. In contrast to the literature, the labor market activity takes place in the (Calvo-staggered) price-setting sector. Matching frictions lead price-setting firms to negotiate wage rates with their...

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Space, search and efficiency

Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - 2000

We investigate the role of spatial frictions in search equilibrium unemployment. For that, we develop a model of the … interaction between land and labor markets, and decompose the equilibrium unemployment rate into two parts: a pure non-spatial one …

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Learning of general equilibrium effects and the unemployment trap

Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001

unemployment results. With an intermediate view, when partial equilibrium effects are taken into account, high real wages and … unemployment results, which may explain the persistence of high unemployment in Europe. If all general equilibrium effects are … incorporated at once, again low real wages and low unemployment results. We thus obtain a hump-shaped relationship between the …

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