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Wages, productivity, and work intensity in the Great Depression

Darby, Julia - 2002

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Testing for asymmetry in British, German and US unemployment data

Kohns, Stephan - 2001

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...

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Exchange rate volatility effects on the German labour market : a survey of recent results and extensions

Buscher, Herbert S.; Müller, Claudia - 1999

In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different volatility measures and four country groups. In...

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

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of … and re-employment, estimation of a nonlinear regression model reveals additional aspects of cyclical sensitivity. In …

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Overtime hours in Great Britain over the period 1975-1999 : a panel data analysis

Kalwij, Adriaan S.; Gregory, Mary - 2000

significant impact on overtime work, while labour market conditions, represented by the unemployment rate, do not. The elasticity … of total working hours with respect to wages is found to be close to zero and with respect to contractual hours close to …

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Real wages and the cycle : the view from the frequency domain

Hart, Robert A.; Malley, James R.; Woitek, Ulrich - 2001

, we employ frequency domain methods that allow us decompose wages into cyclical components and to assess the relative … contribution of each component. These are discussed in relation to wages alone (the univariate case) and to wages in relation to … of coherency between wage and business cycles is time dependent. We establish that real wages are strongly procyclical …

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Individuals' unemployment experiences : heterogeneity and business cycle effects

Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2001

This study examines individuals' unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus is on the extent to which individuals'...

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Individual's unemployment durations over the business cycle

Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2001

Using a large panel of administrative records this study confirms the predictions of the ranking model of Blanchard and Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases with economic growth. However, the ranking model of...

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Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2000

. The distribution of the inflow composition is estimated along with the other parameters. The estimation method deals with …

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Hours and wages in the depression : British engineering, 1926 - 1938

Hart, Robert A. - 2000

costs, through movements from overtime to short-time schedules. Nominal wages dropped relatively modestly while real wages …

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