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-kind benefits and the propensity to have an informal employment relationship in addition to monthly earnings, hourly wages …
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of taxes. Controlling for demand-side and supply-side determinants of unemployment, we show that the PTB plays a … significant role in explaining unemployment in the continental European countries, but not in the Nordic nor the Anglo-Saxon ones …. We also show that there is no relationship between the incidence of the PTB and unemployment persistence, even though …
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We examine the impact of real oil price shocks on labor market flows in the U.S. We first use smooth transition regression (STR) models to investigate to what extent oil prices can be considered as a driving force of labor market fluctuations. Then we develop and calibrate a modified version of...
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This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...
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unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …
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undeclared wages in formal jobs. We also pursue the issues whether displaced workers experience more involuntary informal … informal employment as well as shares of undeclared wages in formal jobs. Our results also show that displacement entraps some …
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The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly … causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the …
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margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …
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inflation and unemployment. We focus on the G7 economies plus Spain, and use monthly data –high-frequency data in a macro …. We find that total connectedness is larger for prices (58.28%) than for unemployment (41.81%). We also identify …
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stock in the labour market by applying the chain reaction theory of unemployment, and we find that capital stock is a major … fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. This role has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission … single-equation unemployment rate models. Here we advocate a different approach. We directly estimate the effects of capital …
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