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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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, framework conditions and political institutions increase the resilience towards adverse shocks and reduce the incidence of … institutions. The above exercises can be used to establish a governance process towards more resilient economic structures (as e …
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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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significantly higher proportion of female workers in Europe prefer inactivity and a significantly lower percentage prefer full …
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the probabilities of worker flows across employment and unemployment in euro area countries during the period 2000-2015 in …
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-related variables accounts for changes (rises) in the Okun's parameter in the US in recent decades. Accordingly, the unemployment gap is …
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This paper studies the dynamics of unemployment (u) and its natural rate (u*), with u* measured by real-time estimates …
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We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods … unit roots in unemployment. Since this is potentially a narrow definition, we also take into account the existence of … structural breaks and non-linear dynamics in unemployment. Finally, we examine whether CEECs' unemployment presents features of …
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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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We evaluate the effects of permanently reducing labour tax rates in the euro area (EA) by simulating a large-scale open economy dynamic general equilibrium model. The model features the EA as a monetary union, split in two regions (Home and the rest of the EA - REA), the US, and the rest of the...
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