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Policies in Hard Times : Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms
Gokmen, Gunes - 2020
It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842057
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Policies in hard times : assessing the impact of financial crises on structural reforms
Gokmen, Gunes; Nannicini, Tommaso; Onorato, … - 2020
It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164495
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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001800159
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Why are European countries diverging in their unemployment experience?
Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001978271
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Turbulence and unemployment in a job matching model
Den Haan, Wouter J. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
According to Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998), high European unemployment since the 1980s can be explained by a rise in economic turbulence, leading to greater numbers of unemployed workers with obsolete skills. These workers refuse new jobs due to high unemployment benefits. In this paper we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002485619
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The impact of institutions on the employment performance in European labour markets
Buscher, Herbert S.; Dreger, Christian; Ramos, Raúl; … - 2005
institutional database should be improved in order to arrive at more definite policy conclusions. -- EU employment ; labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003085749
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The unemployment inflation trade-off in the euro area
Linzert, Tobias (contributor) - 2005
This paper analyzes the relationship between unemployment and wage inflation for 10 of the euro area countries. The combination of low wage inflation and high unemployment in Europe is usually attributed to a rise in the natural rate of unemployment. Using a panel data approach, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003035532
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Reservation wages, search duration, and accepted wages in Europe
Addison, John T. (contributor); Centeno, Mário (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002226252
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Beyond EU-US Trade Dynamics : TTIP Effects Related to Foreign Direct Investment and Innovation
Jungmittag, Andre - 2017
the EU and the US are leading FDI host countries and FDI source countries. Moreover, from a theoretical perspective a … underestimation of deep integration projects such as TTIP. The panel data estimation of knowledge production functions for 20 EU … real income gain of nearly 2% should be expected for Germany (and the EU): considerably higher than what the official TTIP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948641
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Housing and the Labor Market : Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment
Rupert, Peter - 2015
The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039503