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This article takes advantage of access to confidential matched bank-firm data relative to the Belgian economy to investigate how employment decisions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks'...
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employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …
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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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We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job...
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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 … and their interaction is crucial for the dynamics of inflation and unemployment. We estimate a panel VAR with …
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This paper relates the size of the cyclical inflation differentials, currently observed for euro area countries, to the 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....
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This paper studies unemployment and vacancy developments in the euro area at the aggregate and country level over the … employment losses, especially in some sectors. The extent to which the rise in unemployment and particularly long …-term unemployment reflects growing mismatch across euro area labour markets is one of the biggest questions facing euro area labour …
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This paper studies unemployment and vacancy developments in the euro area at the aggregate and country level over the … employment losses, especially in some sectors. The extent to which the rise in unemployment and particularly long …-term unemployment reflects growing mismatch across euro area labour markets is one of the biggest questions facing euro area labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077231
lower levels of liquid wealth. This supports the notion that the persistence of the unemployment shock is an important …
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This paper assesses the relative importance of perceived obstacles to hiring workers on a permanent basis faced by EU firms and studies how they depend on firm's characteristics. Findings suggest that the main obstacles to hiring in Europe are high uncertainty, shortage of skilled labour, high...
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