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Unemployment in East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies...<br< …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863008
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A New Regional Geography of Europe?The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholarsinterested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union memberstates. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatiallyasymmetric impact on labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863251
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Primum Vivere… Industrial Change, Job Destruction and the Geographical Distribution of Unemployment
Pastore, Francesco - 2013
This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer from low job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088339
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Income Tax Flattening : Does it Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009
This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158670
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Public Sector Pay and Corruption : Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2006
This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781545
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The Wage Curve : An Entry Written for the New Palgrave, 2nd Edition
Blanchflower, David G. - 2006
pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern micro data. At the time of writing, the curve has been found in 40 nations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780053
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The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages
van den Berg, Gerard J.; van Vuuren, Aico - 2021
Labor market theories allowing for search frictions make marked predictions on the effect of the degree of frictions on wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity of these theories, this has never been tested. We perform tests with matched worker-firm data. The...
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Social Gradients in Employment During and after the Covid-19 Pandemic
Alstadsæter, Annette; Bratsberg, Bernt; Markussen, Simen; … - 2023
We examine employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Norway during the initial lockdown, through the subsequent recovery, and after the dust had settled. While we identify large and socially skewed effects of the crisis through its early phases, we find no long-term effects on employees...
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How to Improve Worker-Firm Matching : Evidence from a Temporary Foreign Worker Market
Cho, Yoonyoung; Lee, Soohyung - 2021
This paper investigates the role of worker-firm matching algorithms in accounting for early job separation rates. For this purpose, we examine Korea’s temporary foreign worker program in which the government classifies firms by priority levels and matches them with foreign workers based on...
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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation : An Analytic Framework
Autor, David H. - 2021
Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...
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