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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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consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …
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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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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 …
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … New Keynesian framework we argue that labor market institutions should be divided into those institutions that cause …
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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 …
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with a SVAR model by inspecting how unemployment responds to the state of the economy. We show that deviations from Okun …
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This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … New Keynesian framework we argue that labor market institutions should be divided into those institutions that cause …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144855
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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, this allows the model to generate fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor productivity whose magnitudes are lose …
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