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significantly higher proportion of female workers in Europe prefer inactivity and a significantly lower percentage prefer full …
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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 examines the usefulness of the Okun relationship as a “rule of thumb” for predicting changes in unemployment … differential reaction of unemployment to changes in the various expenditure components of GDP - significantly enhances the capacity … of the Okun relationship (in comparison to the aggregate “rule of thumb”) for predicting movements in unemployment. The …
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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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-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies, given shocks of a plausible magnitude. We use data on the cost of vacancy creation …
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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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. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main di … suggests that laws and institutions such as product market regulations, unions and more coordinated wage-setting systems are …
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labour market institutions negatively affects the participation rate. Decisions linked to individual preferences with regards …
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We use a cohort based model to analyse determinants of labour force participation for disaggregated groups of workers in the euro area and the five largest euro area countries. The model captures age and cohort effects as indicators of (unobserved) determinants of participation behaviour. We use...
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